Sven Birkerts co-edits the journal AGNI at Boston University and directs the Bennington Writing Seminars. His most recent book is Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age (Graywolf).
Sven Birkerts
Articles
Getting to the “Click”: Teaching the MFA at Bennington
For writers of creative nonfiction, the “click” comes when you look at the what and realize the how.
Serendipity: A Conversation Between Sven Birkerts and Christopher Benfey
Sven Birkerts and Christopher Benfey discuss art, awareness, and the operations of chance.
The Truest Music
“An essay is a venture, an attempt. It proposes not the Q.E.D. of arrival but ongoingness, forward motion.” Sven Birkerts on “The Art of the Wasted Day."
Where Will You Take Me?
“'Time Pieces' comes across as a vexingly undecided little book.” Sven Birkerts on John Banville's Dublin memoir.
The McPhee Method
Sven Birkerts considers John McPhee's "Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process."
And Yet
Looking back on what I wrote in my ambitious youth, I catch myself mentally revising every other sentence. But I was far less likely to get stuck back then.
A Way of Taking in the World
Sven Birkerts on Teju Cole's new essay collection, "Known and Strange Things."
Cocks and Flowers
What do we see when we look at Robert Mapplethorpe's flowers?
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