Sven Birkerts
The editor of AGNI and the director of the Bennington Writing Seminars, Sven Birkerts is the author of The Other Walk: Essays; The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again; and Reading Life: Books for the Ages.
All Writing
Essay
Lines of Work
The Mother of Possibility
Sven BirkertsIdleness is what happens when we thwart the impulse to plan forward, and instead enjoy the present. More
Essay
Intoxication
Fabled Powers
Sven BirkertsFor an artist, a day of successful inspiration is also a day a systematic intoxication. More
Essay
Time
Strange Days
Sven BirkertsDuring convalescence it grows hard to tell the difference between when to pass the time and when to allow time to pass... More
