Welcome!
My name is Carey Harrison, and this website is primarily
devoted to my writing. An overview of my career is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carey_Harrison
Updates, news and upcoming events can be found here.
A link to my theatre company: http://www.thewoodstockplayers.com
Contact me if you have any questions, at ranald.carew@gmail.com
Here are a few things people have said about my work:
On this site, you will find links to excerpts from novels and plays, some entire, some in excerpts, both published and performed and unpublished and unperformed. There are also links to a few photographs.
Here are excerpts from seven novels unconnected by
character or theme but written (in the order below) in the course of a year:
As An Unperfect Actor On The Stage…
(They were written in 365 days precisely: The Person I
Was was begun on the morning of May 9 2005 and As An Unperfect Actor On The Stage...
was completed on the evening of May 8 2006. Six of the novels were written in
the eight months surrounding August to November 2005, a four-month period
during which the 700-page A Perfect Innocent was written; the
last four books in five months. 700,000 words in the
twelvemonth. 1,800 words a day. My email confirms this: as storage I
sent myself the day's work every evening. I had a
full-time teaching post and other duties at the time and, apart from
Wednesday, my free day, the books were almost entirely
written before breakfast. Anything is possible, it seems, when the time is
right. My previous 700-page novel, Richard's Feet, took twelve years
to complete.)
Below,
links to three recently completed stage plays, the first a 30-minute comedy
staged off-Broadway during May and June 2009, the
other two a pair of full-length ‘dream plays’ yet to be performed:
Scenes
From A Misunderstanding – first scene
Midget
In A Catsuit Reciting Spinoza - entire
Next, two BBC World Service radio plays, entire, the
first one the winner of the 2006 WorldPlay award for
the best play broadcast by an English-language broadcaster:
Some 40 of my essays on language, culture and the classroom
are available to subscribers at http://vocabula.com and http://thescreamonline.com
My book reviews can be found in the online archives of The
San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, and The New York Sunday
Times.
Next,
Some photographs:
One of my
tattoos: the opening section, Für
Marcel Proust, of Theodor Adorno’s Minima Moralia, in the original German
My wife Claire’s painting of
me at work
Performing
at the Kennedy Center
Finally -
Some favorites, those nearest to my heart:
Novels: William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, Saul
Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift, Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse,
Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, Iris Murdoch’s
Under The Net, Marcel Proust’s A la Recherche
du Temps Perdu. Stories: John Keller’s Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher,
Robert Stone’s Under The Pitons. Dramatists:
Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Racine, Chekhov, Pirandello. Poets: Li Po, Dante, Herbert, Laforgue, Whitman, Dickinson. Movies: Lars
von Trier’s Europa, Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura. Philosophers, despite their mutual antagonism: Adorno and Heidegger. Composers: Handel, Bach, Scarlatti,
Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Pårt. Painters: Rembrandt,
Vermeer, Caillebotte, Samuel Palmer, de Staël. Supreme and unmatched artist: Gaudí.