The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism.
By examining memoirs such as Vladimir Nabokov\'s Speak, Memory
Virginia Woolf\'s unfinished A Sketch of the Past ; and Mary Karr\'s The Liars\' Club , Birkerts describes the memoirist\'s essential art of assembling patterns of meaning, stirring to life our own sense of past and present..
In The Art of Time in Memoir , critic and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self.
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.
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 series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism
