* “The Art of Self: Autobiography in the Age of Narcissism,” Harper’s, May 1994, http://harpers.org/archive/1994/05/the-art-of-self/.

* (In the index, he appears as Nabokov, Krill: 49, 256-257)

* Graves also notes that the flashbacks that haunted him for more than ten years all came from his first four months in France only. “The emotion-recording apparatus seems to have failed after Loos,” he wrote; his memory sort of tanked up and stopped saving what passed before his eyes.

* The year before Harrison’s book, Michael Ryan brought out his Secret Life, about a sex addiction that drove him to prey on undergrads in his tutelage and even as a kid to boink the family terrier. It received much praise, even landing the cover of the New York Times Book Review. War memoirs in which male writers bomb ancestral villages are never reviewed with such character slaughter as Harrison suffered. A man indicted can wind up wildly praised.