National Book Critics Circle

He has received grants from the Lila Wallace Breeders Digest Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation.

He was a winner of the Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle in 1985 and the Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award from Penn for the Best Book of Essays in 1990.

Burgerts has reviewed regularly for The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, Esquire, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Parnassus, The Yale Review, and other publications.

He has taught writing at Harvard University, Emerson College, Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, and the Graduate Bennington Writing Seminars, which he directed for 10 years.

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