Taking Shape is about love
William Blissett enjoys a unique presence in academic folklore today
daring to convey raw emotion with disarming empathy
Nothing you ever saw on ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ ever looked anything like this
quietly earnest and unthreatening
The Syllabus Non-Fiction Taking Shape is about loveThe Syllabus by Mike Barnes. With section titles like e mails to the coast, Accelerator, Decelerator, and Postscript: Three Teachers, the narrator of The Syllabus M digresses, fantasizes, catalogues and invents, slowly recovering the strands of childhood exploration and adolescent obsession, joy and morbidity, that have led him to both alienation and freedom. First friend, first love, first sex, inklings of vocation: all of the elements of the