Sven Birkerts is the author of various collections of essays, including The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age and a memoir, My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time.

• February 2004: The Possibility of the Search
  Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer and our shimmering pursuits rekindled.
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  May 2003: A New Prose Signal
  Gary Lutz’s sentences: luminous and deflated, disjointed to perfection.