Don’t Believe Everything You Hear

Don’t Believe Everything You Hear

By Sy Boles | Harvard Staff Writer | Harvard Gazette There have been unreliable narrators for as long as people have told each other stories — and that includes novels. The unstable relationship between reader, narrator, and author produces a “uniquely intensive reading experience,” said Ian Shank, a preceptor in expository writing and the instructor of a Division of Continuing Education course that explores the mechanics of unreliable tellers o…