Sven Birkerts and the Frightening Fitzroya
Being wrong is wonderful! It’s a bit like accidentally walking into a fitzroya and suddenly realizing that there’s this large evergreen that you didn’t know about. Suddenly, you’re forced to alter your...
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Well, Good Ol’ Sven is at it again, dissing the digital age as an abject obverse to the novel. Some questions: 1. If Sven’s students are “not reading newspapers or print magazines,” but are reading the...
View ArticleIgnored and Overlooked Books in 2013
(A version of this post originally appeared at Our Man in Boston. This piece was copyedited — with all book titles and author spellings corrected — before being published on Reluctant Habits.)...
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