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crl-15175	Garrett, Jeffrey	Tolstoy’s Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse. Ed. Sven Birkerts. St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf (Graywolf Forum, 1), 1996. 261p. $16 (ISBN 1-55597-248-9). LC 96-75790.	1997-11-01	3	.pdf	application/pdf	2353	158	49	Birkerts finds that “the whole familiar tradition of the book” is “destined for imminent histori- cal oblivion,” more broadly seeing him- self and a dwindling number of his thoughtful contemporaries being “gradually coerced into living against [their] natural grain, forced to adapt to a pace and a level of technological com- plexity” that is now driving them to re- volt, though without any hope of suc- c e s s . Those inter- ested in a more scientific (i.e., less hu- manistically oriented) study of the dia- lectics of writing and text technology may wish to turn to another recent col- lection of essays: The New Writing Envi- ronment: Writers at Work in a World of Tech- nology (1996).—Jeffrey Garrett, Northwest- ern University.	cache/crl-15175.pdf	txt/crl-15175.txt