Peter Birkenhead is a writer living in Washington, DC. His memoir Gonville was published in 2010.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Fortune’s Fool
Peter Birkenhead reviews Terry Alford's biography of John Wilkes Booth....
Speaking of Memory: Nabokov’s Folded Fabric
"There is a giddy, illicit charge to Nabokov’s hunt for a glimpse of infinity."...
Lost and Found
"Remember Me Like This" closes with an epilogue that evokes the book’s most arresting and indelible image: of four terrified and broken creatures seated around a kitchen table, moved by an impulse beyond their comprehension to reach for each other’s hands, close their eyes, and bow their heads....
The Birth of the Cool: Leo Braudy's Memoir of the 1950s
A memoir of the 1950s, looking out, not in....
