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A flickering between truth and fiction

October 2, 2014 Philip Harris 0 Comment book review, english, literature, the scrivener

At one point in Ben Lerner’s new book, “10:04,” the narrator visits the studio space of his lover, Alena. Alena’s

September 4, 2014 Philip Harris 0 Comment book review, Haruki Murakami, Tsukuru Tazaki

Here’s a joke: what’s the name of that one Haruki Murakami novel with the aimless, somewhat developmentally-arrested thirty-something protagonist who

April 10, 2014 Philip Harris 1 Comment books, english, guest speaker, lecture, literature, toni morrison

On April 7th, Toni Morrison spoke to a packed house – so packed that many faculty were stranded outside, forced

March 27, 2014 Philip Harris 0 Comment book, Juan Pablo Villalobos, philip harris, quasaedilla

Faced with the spiritually truncating demands of modernity, the twentieth-century idealist, as described by André Breton in the “First Manifesto

Despairing of the writer’s condition under the Soviet Union, Mikhail Bulgakov burned the first draft of “The Master and Margarita”

In a very different world, today would be 5 December 92 p.s.U., or the fifth day of the twelfth month

November 21, 2013 Philip Harris books, death, god, Julian Barnes, life, Reviews

In 2011, Julian Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for “The Sense of an Ending.” It was the first novel

October 10, 2013 Philip Harris literature, review

Thomas Pynchon was something of a Terrence Malick figure before Terrence Malick. Like the reclusive filmmaker, Pynchon likes to stay

September 26, 2013 Philip Harris literature, review

“The Infatuations” is a novel about death: literal death, literary death, the enduring power of the dead, and the inconvenience

September 12, 2013 Philip Harris review, taipei, tao lin

In praise of James Joyce’s “Dubliners”, Ezra Pound wrote, “since de Maupassant we have had so many people trying to