Christopher Beha

(1979) Writer

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Christopher Beha is a writer.

Quick Facts About Christopher Beha

Born: November 30, 1979
Profession: Writer

About Christopher Beha

[Wikidata] American writer... | [Wikipedia]

Christopher Beha is an American writer. He was the editor-in-chief of Harper's Magazine from October 2019 to October 2023. His third novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, was long-listed for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction.

Quotes by Christopher Beha

“There's an exercise I'll do sometimes with a class in which we'll start with a word; I'll give everyone a word, and…

Christopher Beha

Fitness

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“Fans of the Peanuts comic strip may also remember Snoopy beginning his novel again and again, always starting with the line 'It…

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Christmas carol

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“A few years ago, I listened to a rabbi give a talk and she was explaining what a blessing is. It is…

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Blessings

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“A more generous, more useful interpretation of the phrase is that we should write about what we know, *however we come to…

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Communication

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“We weep for characters, and then we go brush our teeth and have to face the fact that the world is warming…

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Desire

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“Research serves fiction best when it's dissolved entirely into the work, reprecipitated only to be embodied in characters, images, and the sensual…

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Science

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