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&nbsp;(Graywolf).

Sven Birkerts

Getting to the “Click”: Teaching the MFA at Bennington

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Christopher Benfey is a literary critic and scholar of 19th- and 20th-cenury American and British literature. He is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, where he has taught since 1989. Benfey is the author of A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade, which won both the 2009 Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa and the Ambassador Book Award; The Double Life of Stephen Crane (1992); Degas in New Orleans (1997); The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan (2003); and American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South (2010). He has edited The American Writings of Lafcadio Hearn and the complete poems of Stephen Crane for the Library of America. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review, and Ploughshares. His family memoir, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival, appeared in 2012.

Christopher Benfey

Serendipity: A Conversation Between Sven Birkerts and Christopher Benfey

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

The Art of the Wasted Day

The Truest Music

Time Pieces

Where Will You Take Me?

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

Draft No. 4

The McPhee Method

And Yet

Known and Strange Things

A Way of Taking in the World

Cocks and Flowers

The Life of Images: Selected Prose

The Lunatic: Poems

Chance and Sausage

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction

Sven Birkerts Interviews Sven Birkerts

Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

Where Danger Is

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

A Literary Education and Other Essays

An Essayist of the Old School

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&nbsp;(Graywolf).

Sven Birkerts

Articles