Paul Holdengräber is joined by Sven Birkerts on episode 181 of The Quarantine Tapes. Sven is a writer and he talks with Paul today about his recent move. He describes his experience of packing and unpacking his library and they discuss the meditation of looking through old books and seeing your own changing tastes and interests.

Paul asks Sven about his books,The Gutenberg Elegies and Changing the Subject. They discuss how this past year has increased our reliance on technology and Sven’s discomfort with what the world of algorithms demands from us before turning to his upcoming book on Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and his relationship to serendipity.

Sven Birkerts is the author of 11 books of essays and memoir, including The Gutenberg Elegies, The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again. His most recent his book is on SPEAK, MEMORY in Ig Publishing's Bookmarked series. Currently the co-editor of the journal AGNI, he was for many years the Director of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He recently moved to Amherst, Ma.

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Paul Holdengraber - Co-Creator, Host, OLA Director
Anthony Audi - Co-Creator, Researcher, OLA Director
Alejandro Cohen - Co-Creator, Producer, Composer
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