SOURCE: "The Fever Days," in New York Times Book Review, November 3, 1996, p. 20.
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 offers a negative appraisal of The Cattle Killing.
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