There is a scene near the beginning of Window with Father that I wrote four times before finally letting it stand
Harold Berman, a novelist nearing his seventieth birthday, places one of his own books on a kitchen scale. He waits until the display stabilizes. Then he takes the book off again—as if the result had indicated an error. He puts it back on. The scale shows the same number.
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on “Without Any Proof” by Glenn Harrow There are novels you close after the last sentence and think: that was obvious. And there are novels you close and realize that somewhere along the way you stopped merely reading and started counting. Counting when the character lies, when she believes she’s lying, and when the difference
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Without Any Proof — Glenn Harrow Brooklyn, autumn. A theater, a spilled beer, a woman behind a book table. That’s how everything between Hank and Beth begins — and that’s how it stays: close enough to touch, far enough to miss each other. Glenn Harrow, author of the acclaimed psychological novel The Delilah Principle, returns
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There were too many people in the lobby for the space, and everyone acted like that was the point. Someone brushed past a stranger’s shoulder with an elbow, someone else laughed too loud, a couple stopped in the doorway even though the next people were already waiting behind them. Over all of it lay that thin heat you get when winter air trades places with body warmth.
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There’s a sentence I keep hearing since the book came out. From people who write to me by email, on Instagram, sometimes even in messages you don’t really expect. It usually goes something like this: “I thought I was reading about someone else. And then I realized I was reading about myself.”
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Some novels begin with a bang. Then there are novels that begin with a beer stain — on a beige linen shirt, in an overcrowded theater lobby in Brooklyn — and don’t let you go after that.
I’m writing that novel right now
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There is a particular way of talking about artificial intelligence that has by now become so entrenched we barely notice it anymore: the language of threat on one side, the language of salvation on the other. Apocalypse or utopia, loss of control or promise of deliverance. Both are projection.
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At the center of this novel is Harry Hartman, a writer living in New York who is approaching his seventieth birthday. Outwardly, he moves through the city with wit, courtesy, and routine, but inwardly he has lived for years with an absence: his fragile relationship with his daughter Hannah.
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Children may not have adult words for manipulation, but they often recognize its atmosphere first. This article examines how emotional control inside families is absorbed through tone, tension, and the quiet burden of learning to manage moods before understanding their meaning.
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Some forms of control arrive loudly. Others disguise themselves as care, stability, and emotional responsibility. This article explores the Delilah Principle as a quiet system of influence in which power works through guilt, calibration, and the gradual surrender of self-trust.
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