Essays
Standalone nonfiction, including Basic Economy.
Browse essays →Personal writing
Notes from outside the exam room.
Essays, stories and reflections by Brian Harris. The clinical record lives on the CV; this is where the rest of the thinking goes.
Basic Economy
An essay
“Basic Economy is not, in any serious sense, a fare class. It is a disciplinary theater for passengers who have revealed, through a sequence of tiny but legible decisions, that they will accept humiliation in exchange for savings too modest to defend aloud.”
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Where to begin
Short fiction
Shorter pieces and comic dialogues, including The Pill Grinder.
Read a story →Novels
Alignment and The Glitch, two novels about machines, power and the people caught between them.
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Brian Harris, MDFounder and Medical Director, EusomniaMD
About the writer
A physician who writes
Brian Harris is triple board-certified in sleep medicine (ABIM and ABA), anesthesiology (ABA) and addiction medicine (ABPM). He writes fiction and essays about technology, medicine and the strange economics of everyday life.