SELECT WRITING & MORE
Coming Soon
All My Tender Dreams: A Father, a Son, and the '60's Generation: A Memoir
"The Flexible Writer: A Basic Guide," (Longman, 2003)
Loud! Rude! Wrong!
Talking Back to Talk Radio and Other Right-Wing Media Read More
Harper Perennial's
Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure
Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak
Welcome to 'Whole-Mart' (Dissent magazine)
Debating Socially Responsible Businesss
Critics Reply to "Welcome to 'Whole-Mart'"
Coming Out in an Up-and-Coming Sport
Chicken Soup for the Activist Soul (Organica--Arts & Activism)
Sex, Spirituality, and Evolution (Center for Partnership Studies)
The Story of a Women's Basketball Pioneer
Music
David Bragman (guitar)
Mark Harris (vocal)
Welcome to www.Mark-T-Harris.com
Mark Harris is a writer with a flair for incisive social commentary. His essays explore topics ranging from women's basketball to alternative medicine, health to human rights, talk radio and more. He is a contributor to Amandla, Conscious Choice, Dissent, Z, Utne (formerly Utne Reader), and other magazines. His work also appears online at Alternet, Common Dreams, OpEdNews, ZNet, and other popular news sites.
As an investigative journalist, Harris is the author of a popular 2006 Dissent magazine expose, "Welcome to 'Whole-Mart'—Rotten Apples in the Social Responsibility Industry." His 2003 report, "Could Marijuana Be Legal in Illinois?" told the story for Chicago's Conscious Choice magazine of glaucoma sufferer Brenda Kratovil's efforts to enforce a little-known Illinois medical marijuana statute. The Kratovil story was later widely reported by Chicago media, including the Chicago Tribune and the local Fox News TV affiliate. Notably, his 2001 essay, "The Game of Life," was a national cover story for the Utne Reader.
Harris is a past features writer for Nightingale-Conant's Insight magzine, writing on health, music, and other topics. He is also a former Choice Books columnist for Conscious Choice magazine. His book reviews and interviews have featured such authors and their work as Melody Beattie, Joan Borysenko, Noam Chomsky, Riane Eisler, Lewis Lapham, Christiane Northrup, Studs Terkel, Marianne Williamson, and others.
Harris is a featured contributor to "The Flexible Writer," fourth edition, by Susanna Rich (Allyn & Bacon/Longman, 2003); and "Guide to College Reading," sixth edition, by Kathleen McWhorter (Addison-Wesley, 2003.) He is also a contributor to the national best-seller, “Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure" (Harper Collins, 2008), by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser. His flair for the ironic earned his contribution a mention in The New Yorker and on NPR’s national website.
Additionally, Harris is a contributor to professional health care publications including CMA Today, Laboratory Medicine, and The Quality Letter for Healthcare Leaders.
Mark Harris is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists. A native of San Francisco, he currently lives in Bloomington, Illinois.
Commentary & Features
• The Oregonian (June 21, 2009)
Swine Flu Threat Highlights Need for Single-Payer
• Common Dreams (April 28, 2009)
As Long As We're Talking About Socialism
• KIds Talk Radio (April 11, 2009)
• KIds Talk Radio (April 4, 2009)
Moments That Make Our Hearts Dance
• OpEdNews (Oct. 12, 2008)
Where Are the Slander Merchants Taking Us?
• Amandla! (Aug.-Sept. 2008)
What Will an Obama Presidency Bring?
• ZNet (July 27, 2008)
Will Obama Be Democrats' Herbert Hoover?
• Pantagraph (June 15, 2008)
Passage of Time Brings Meaning of "Dad" into Sharper Focus
• ZNet (April 27, 2008)
Bill Ayers and the Talk Media Circus
• ZNet (March 2, 2008)
• Pantagraph (Feb. 24, 2008)
What Makes Someone a Campus Murderer?
ZNet (Jan. 22, 2008)
• Counterpunch (Dec. 31, 2007)
Broken Health Care Demands More Than Conservative Apologetics
The Story of Parvin: Reflections on Hope in an Age of War
What Does It Mean to 'Support the Troops?'
• ZNet (Aug. 7, 2007)
• ZNet (July 29, 2007)
• OpEdNews (July 13, 2007)
SiCKO & the Health Insurance Rip-Off
• ZNet (April 22, 2007)
• OpEdNews (March 17, 2007)
The Devolving World of the Right-Wing Media
• ZNet (Dec. 15, 2006)
Pro-War Media: None Dare Call It Reason
• OpEdNews.com (May 15, 2006)
Border Guards Are Not the Answer
• Democratic Underground (Feb. 4 2006)
Lies That Sell, Lies That Kill
• Z magazine (January 2006)
• U.S. Labor Against War (Sept. 6, 2005)
Iraq War Has Made a Mockery of Genuine 'Homeland Security'
• The New Standard (May 19, 2005)
United Airlines Pension Plans Under Assault
• Znet (April 28, 2005)
'Alternative' Media Quietly Sells Out
• Z magazine (July-Aug. 2004)
The Election and the Antiwar Movement
• Utne (March-April 2004)
• ZNet (Dec. 14, 2003)
New Labor Spirit Stirs in California Grocery Workers
• Democratic Underground (Oct. 8, 2003)
• Conscious Choice (Dec. 2002)
• Conscious Choice (Oct. 2002)
Who Speaks for a Different Future?
• Conscious Choice (June 2002)
• Conscious Choice (May 2002)
• Conscious Choice (Dec. 2001)
• Modern Physician (Jan. 1, 2001)
Special Challenges for Florida HIV Specialists
• Conscious Choice (Dec. 1999)
• Conscious Choice (March 1999)
Paying for Alternative Medicine
• Conscious Choice (October 1999)
• Conscious Choice (Sept. 1999)
• Rush Record (Spring-Summer 1997)
A Doctor's Himalayan Adventure
"Here is a voice of great clarity and conviction.
Mark Harris writes convincingly, even beautifully,
of the possibilities for a transformed world."
—Riane Eisler, "The Chalice and the Blade"
(HarperSan Francisco, 1986)
"In a world of shrill, divisive voices, Mark Harris
is a welcome north star. A beautiful writer, he
navigates the way to a more humane world."
—Susan Skog, "Radical Acts of Love"
(Hazelden, 2001)
"Mark's contributions stand out as among the best
we've had the privilege to publish. He is a writer
of original talent."
—Robert Stuberg, Nightingale-Conant
"Mark Harris is not afraid to raise his voice
about topics others prefer to ignore. He is a
powerful and eloquent writer."
—Carl Finamore, former president Local 1781, IAM
Burlingame, California
“Mark Harris has consistently been one of Conscious
Choice's strongest voices. His thoughtful work
illuminates complex issues and engages the
reader at a heartfelt level.”
—Jim Slama, founding publisher and editor,
Conscious Choice magazine
Interviews & Reviews • Studs Terkel: You Can't Imagine the Love You Feel "'Will the Circle Be Unbroken?' stands as an antidote to our culture’s tendency to disenfranchise grief, turning our awareness away from what makes us afraid or uncomfortable. The stories here bring us home to the experience, in ways full of solace and dignity, and with an innate respect for our human diversity." • Noam Chomsky Interview: Power and Powerlessness "'Progress is not constantly upwards,' says Chomsky. 'There are periods of regression. But over time things do get better. But they don’t get better by gifts. They get better by people looking at what’s wrong and struggling to change it. And that’s very much within our power.'" • Riane Eisler: Tomorrow's Children "When I think of the school of the future, I see a place of adventure, magic, and excitement, a place that, generation after generation, adults will remember from their youth with pleasure, and continue to participate in to ensure that all children learn to live rich, caring, and fulfilling lives." • Alice Miller: Overcoming Emotional Blindness "For Alice Miller, psychotherapy should help a person identify those areas in everyday life where traces of their early years still surface, enabling them gradually to become more adept at recognizing those flashpoints between past and present for what they are. In this way, a person gradually learns to dismantle the past’s hold, becoming less inclined to act out blindly." • Curtis White: The Middle Mind "Curtis White is a writer who wants us to discover what the "For this critic, the paradox of modern America and its literary culture is that the more literacy skills decline in the population, the more ponderous, remote, and affected becomes the literary bestseller." Austin Sarat: A Calm, Bureaucratic Bloodletting "'When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition,' represents a valuable contribution to the growing debate over the merits and morality of the death penalty."
More Reviews • Noam Chomsky: Asking Questions That Matter • Ann Coulter: McCarthyism Sells • Riane Eisler: The Power of Partnership • James Frey: Alcohol and Recovery • Andrew Harvey: Debunking the 'Guru' System • Jim Hightower: Democracy is Not a High-Speed Internet • Lewis Lapham: Theater of War • Barbara Levine: The Things We Tell Ourselves • Paul Loeb: Social Activism in Cynical Times • Tony Mazzocchi: Redefining Society • Christine Northrup: Creating Health • Arundhati Roy: Hope Springs Eternal • Michael Savage: Media's Pro-War Campaign • Wayne Teasdale: Spirituality in a Global Perspective • Jim Warda: Where Are We Going So Fast?
|