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.
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).
For writers of creative nonfiction, the “click” comes when you look at the what and realize the how.
Sven Birkerts and Christopher Benfey discuss art, awareness, and the operations of chance.
“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...
“'Time Pieces' comes across as a vexingly undecided little book.” Sven Birkerts on John Banville's Dublin memoir.
Sven Birkerts considers John McPhee's "Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process."
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...
Sven Birkerts on Teju Cole's new essay collection, "Known and Strange Things."
What do we see when we look at Robert Mapplethorpe's flowers?