SOURCE: "The Art of Memory," in New Republic, Vol. 207, Nos. 4,043 and 4,044, July 13 and 20, 1992, pp. 42-44.
Birkerts is a noted critic and author of several books, including The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (1995). In the following review, he praises The Stories of John Edgar Wideman and The Homewood Books, calling Wideman "one of our very finest writers."
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