{"product_id":"readings","title":"Readings","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Graywolf Press collection of Sven Birkerts's literary essays, mixing previously published criticism with new pieces. The subjects range from Elizabeth Bishop to Don DeLillo to the future of the creative spirit, and the prose is careful, meditative, slightly melancholic. The book is a paperback with the understated Graywolf look: plain cover, elegant type, no gimmicks. Graywolf kept the design quiet because Birkerts's readers do not need a cover to tell them what to think. Ideal reader: the reader who believes that reading is a form of attention worth defending, or the writer who needs a critic who slows down long enough to notice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabound","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48509839638740,"sku":"9781555972837","price":5.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/5410\/7860\/files\/9781555972837.jpg?v=1787242272","url":"https:\/\/checkout.vagaboundbooks.com\/products\/readings","provider":"Vagabound","version":"1.0","type":"link"}