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Sven Birkerts. Sven Birkerts (born 21 September 1951) is an American essayist and literary critic. He is best known for his book The Gutenberg Elegies (1994), which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the "electronic culture." In 2006 he published a revised edition with new ...
1976 (age 47–48) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Occupation. Journalist. Website. stephenmarche.com. Stephen Marche (/ mɑːrʃ / MARSH; born 1976) [1] is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and cultural commentator. He is an alumnus of the University of King's College [2] and City College of New York (CUNY). [3] In 2005, he received a doctorate in ...
William Howard Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017) [1] was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts (2006), won the Truman Capote ...
Period. 1973–present. Genre. Literary fiction. Joy Williams (born February 11, 1944) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Best-known for her short fiction, she is also the author of novels including State of Grace, The Quick and the Dead, and Harrow. Williams has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, a Rea ...
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Kajetan Abgarowicz (1856–1909) Armenian-Polish journalist, novelist and short story writer. René Goscinny (1926–1977) was one of the most important french comic book authors of the Bande dessinée best known for Asterix and ...
Berlin Prize Fellowship. Spouse. Claire Messud. James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965) [1] is an English [a] literary critic, essayist and novelist. Wood was The Guardian ' s chief literary critic between 1992 and 1995. He was a senior editor at The New Republic between 1995 and 2007. As of 2014, he is Professor of the Practice of ...
Writing for Publishers Weekly, Ed Nawotka called the book "part academic monograph on the group and its music, part pocket history of hip-hop, part memoir, and part epistolary elegy. It is a book that conveys the wonder of being a fan and the visceral impact of experiencing the feeling of having oneself reflected back in music and pop culture."
Barry Holstun Lopez (January 6, 1945 – December 25, 2020) was an American author, essayist, nature writer, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. In a career spanning over 50 years, he visited more than 80 countries, and wrote extensively about a variety of landscapes including the Arctic ...