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Susan Harlan

Susan Harlan
Susan Harlan is a writer based in Winston-Salem, NC, who is particularly interested in the relationship between place, memory, and objects. Her essays have appeared in publications including The Guardian US, The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, Roads & Kingdoms, Racked, The Morning News, The Awl, Curbed, Atlas Obscura, Nowhere, The Common, Literary Hub, The Bitter Southerner, The Brooklyn Quarterly,and Public Books. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from New York University and an M.A. in English Renaissance theater history from King’s College London and teaches English at Wake Forest University. Her book Luggage was published in the Bloomsbury series Object Lessons in March 2018. And her book Decorating a Room of One's Own, a humorous mash-up of home design reportage and literary homes based on her column for The Toast, was published by Abrams in October 2018.


The End-of-Summer Joy of Reading by a Motel Pool

Susan Harlan on One of Life's Simple Pleasures
August 27, 2019  By Susan Harlan
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The Bittersweet Feeling of Reconnecting with a Forgotten Language

Susan Harlan on Rekindling an Old Friendship in the City of Lights
August 12, 2019  By Susan Harlan
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Saying Goodbye to My Beloved
Local Bookstore

Susan Harlan Offers an Appreciation of Winston-Salem's Bright Leaf Books
April 24, 2019  By Susan Harlan
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An Attempt to See Paris Through the Eyes of Georges Perec

Lunch on the Place Saint-Sulpice with My Literary Idol
March 7, 2019  By Susan Harlan
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How to Read Caves

From Tennessee's Tuckaleechee Caverns to the
Caves of John Keats, Virgil, and Virginia Woolf
January 19, 2018  By Susan Harlan
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Why Is It So Hard For a Woman to Read Alone in America?

On the Pleasures of Paris, City of Solitude and Poetry
July 14, 2017  By Susan Harlan
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In Praise of the Book Tower

On Clutter, Collecting, and the Infinite Stack
June 17, 2015  By Susan Harlan
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