Essayist, literary critic and editor of AGNI poetry magazine Sven Birkerts will read from his most recent work at the South End Library this coming Tuesday, March 6, at 6:30 PM. He will be introduced by nationally acclaimed novelist and South End resident, Sue Miller, who invited him.
Birkerts has written extensively about the impact of fast-paced electronic media on the more contemplative act of reading. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1973, and worked with the Borders brothers in their first bookstore in Ann Arbor. He is the author of a number of books, including The Gutenberg Elegies: the Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age and My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time.
His most recent collection of essays, The Other Walk, is set in the Boston area, where Birkerts lives with his family, and in Latvia, where he was born.
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The event is part of The South End Writes authors series, and sponsored by The Friends of the South End Library.
Event info provided by Marleen Nienhuis.