about The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets ...

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"Garrison mixes memory studies with psychology in an unprecedented way to focus on 'pleasure and bliss' enacted in Shakespeare's language. [...] Summing Up: Essential." -- Choice Reviews

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"A pivotal intervention not only in Shakespeare studies but also in early modern memory studies" -- English Studies​

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about Glass ...

"[Garrison's] small but deeply satisfying book [...] shuttles us back and forth between the way glass marked the imaginative world of Renaissance plays and poems to the imagined worlds of today's interactive glass surfaces in the guise of iPhones, smart appliances, and smart rooms." -- Los Angeles Review of Books

"These are not so much lessons about the objects themselves, but opportunities for self-reflection and storytelling. They remind us that we are surrounded by a wondrous world, as long as we care to look." -- Chicago Tribune

"[A] book that can be read in a fascinated hour, but will influence your reading and your looking for the next month." -- Times Literary Supplement

about Shakespeare and the Afterlife ...
 

"The book provides a very compelling, erudite, thoughtful and nuanced exploration of individual and social meaning, and the 'powerful hold that loss and reunion have on our private emotions and collective consciousness'." -- Shakespeare Survey

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"Ultimately, the book as a whole lives up to the promise printed on its back cover to 'encourage us to engage with the author's work with new insight and new curiosity." -- Renaissance Quarterly

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