Author: Harrison
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Read “Westward Denim” in Nevada Humanities
During this COVID summer, I drove across the country from Maryland to Nevada with my parents and one of my brothers. In the process, we drove by our ancestor’s hometown in Kansas, sparking a reflection about what it might mean to make westward “progress” across the American continent during a pandemic. Read “Westward Denim: Retracing…
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Read “Guyot Hall under Quarantine” and “The Musical Mineralogist” in The Smilodon
“Guyot Hall under Quarantine” spotlights the experience of four Princeton Ph.D. candidates who received their doctorates during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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“Tales from the Deep” Anthology due out Nov. 2020
Check out the cool promo page for Flying Ketchup Press’ new speculative fiction anthology, Tales from the Deep, featuring my short story, “Falling.” From the publisher’s description: This short story collection will take readers deep into dystopian future water worlds and alien planets that look like home. You’ll visit a doctor in the high mountains…
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Read “No ‘I’ in Travel?: Travel writing in the Trump era” in The Startup
Travel writing has a long and storied history, dating back to the time of Herodotus. But what is the place of travel writing in the 21st century? Should travel writing be written by a traveler, or by people who live in the places being written about in question? Should travel writing use the first-person perspective?…
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Read “The Duel Doctor in Weehawken” in Princeton Alumni Weekly
Curious about the connection between the Hamilton-Burr duel, grave-robbing, the US’s first botanical garden, and Rockefeller Center? Today, Dr. David Hosack is mostly known as the attendant doctor during the Hamilton-Burr duel, a role which overshadowed his career as a leading American physician and botanical pioneer. Read my latest piece in Princeton Alumni Weekly about…
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Read “In Texas, a tale of two cities” on Medium
Working from home today? Tired of reading about COVID-19? Maybe you’ll read about Texas. Last week, I got the chance to spend time in San Antonio and Austin, TX during the 2020 AWP Conference (which, of course, was marred by the then-dawning novel coronavirus pandemic). During my travels, what I learned was this: If San…
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Reading at Reno’s Coffee N’ Comics, Monday, January 20
On Monday, January, 20, I’m happy to announce I’ll be part of a group of local writers reading at the latest, “Writer’s Resist” event, to be held at Reno, Nevada’s Coffee N’ Comics on Monday, January 20 from 6-8 PM. I’ll be reading a short piece on the uncanny similarities between our current times and…
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Read “The Rise of Skywalker’s Story Problem” on Medium
Two years ago, I wrote The Last Jedi had a ‘snark problem,’ a critique that resonated with more than 10k readers and was featured as an audio story (!). Well, this time The Rise of Skywalker has a ‘story problem’—a cavalier attitude toward storytelling that renders the movie into a series of cheap workarounds which…
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“Falling” to be published in Flying Ketchup Press’ “Tales from the Deep” in Spring 2020
I’m thrilled to announced my short story, “Falling,” will be published this spring in Tales from the Deep, an anthology of fantasy, horror and science fiction. The anthology will be the product of Flying Ketchup Press, a small press based in Kansas City, MO, and be published sometime after May 2020. “Falling” is a gothic…
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Read: “Biden in Reno: ‘Trump pursued a personal political vendetta against me’”
On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, former vice president Joe Biden visited Reno and immediately set about addressing Trump’s false claims in the wake of the rapidly mushrooming Ukraine scandal. Read my essay in Medium, the fourth post in my Reno Election 2020 politics series.