Between the lines
Harvard Bound offers an intimate look into the reading life of faculty members. For this segment, we asked Stephen Burt, Josh Bell, and Jane Rosenzweig — three avid readers, as well as writers — to divulge a book that influenced them in their work, and to read a passage from it. Soundbytes: Stephen Burt Professor of English and noted poetry critic Stephen Burt reads from D.A. Powell’s poetry collection “Chronic.” “It’s a book I’ve been coming back to and back to ever since it came out in 2009,” said Burt. Soundbytes: Jane Rosenzweig The director of the Harvard College Writing Center reads a passage from “Open Secrets” by Alice Munro. “I discovered this story … when I was a student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop right around the time that Frank Conroy, who was the program’s legendary director, ripped the last three pages off of one...