Two young writers meet at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and fall in love. He is from Haverford, and she is from Stanford, and they are both very talented. They graduate and move to New York City and take jobs in publishing-he at Harper's Magazine,...

THE BOOKFORUM INTERVIEW As the author of six novels and five nonfiction works, Kathryn Harrison has two distinct identities in the literary world. She is perhaps best known for her memoir The Kiss (1997), a devastating account of a family triangle involving Harrison,...

Edwidge and the Angry inch: It’s reading season, when we try to behave like the secular urban intellectuals the red states think we are after a summer spent devouring nanny lit in sunburned stupor on the beach! Hence the smugly erudite New Yorker Festival, featuring...

Envy, by Kathryn Harrison. Random House, 301 pages, $24.95. “Can it be true that all of Will's patients are consumed by the topic of sex? Getting it. Not getting it. Getting it, but not enough of it. Getting it but not It. Coming, not...

In the following interview, O'Connell offers a positive assessment of Exposure, and Harrison states that the events dramatized in her first novel, Thicker Than Water, are entirely fictional.

In the following interview, Harrison reacts to the critical controversy and personal attacks prompted by the publication of The Kiss.

In the following excerpt, Allen offers a negative assessment of The Kiss, suggesting that Harrison’s real motive behind writing the book was the author's hatred of her mother.