{"product_id":"the-art-of-time-in-memoir-then-again-9781555974893","title":"The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations of key but sometimes neglected aspects of creative writing by some of contemporary literature's finest practioners.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Time in Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, critic and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. By examining memoirs such as Vladimir Nabokov's \u003ci\u003eSpeak, Memory\u003c\/i\u003e; Virginia Woolf's unfinished \u003ci\u003eA Sketch of the Past\u003c\/i\u003e; and Mary Karr's \u003ci\u003eThe Liars' Club\u003c\/i\u003e, Birkerts describes the memoirist's essential art of assembling patterns of meaning, stirring to life our own sense of past and present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSven Birkerts\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eReading Life: Books for the Ages\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReadings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gutenberg Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e, and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eMy Sky Blue Trades\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Harvard University and at the Bennington Writing Seminars and is the editor of \u003ci\u003eAGNI\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50656528695570,"sku":"9781555974893","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cc990dd7-af92-4af5-993c-0ba2566a11b6.jpg?v=1733388467","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-art-of-time-in-memoir-then-again-9781555974893","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}