The Index of Self-Destructive Acts. Longlisted for the National Book Award. A New York Times Editors’ Choice. Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize. Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, The Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, and BuzzFeed. And this is the idea at the center of Christopher Beha’s brilliant new novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts. The Index of Self-Destructive Acts is the k “The Index of Self-Destructive Acts” is a baseball term coined by Bill James that describes the total number of hit batsmen, wild pitches, balks, and errors by a pitcher, per nine innings/5. Sweeping in scope yet meticulous in its construction, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts is a remarkable family portrait and a masterful evocation of New York City and its institutions. Over the course of a single baseball season, Christopher Beha traces the passing of the torch from the old establishment to the new meritocracy, exploring how each generation’s failure helped land us where we are www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins.
Christopher Beha The Index of Self-Destructive Acts. Longlisted for the National Book Award. A New York Times Editors' Choice. Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize. Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, The Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, and BuzzFeed "An impressive performance." ― The New. The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, by Christopher Beha (Tin House, pp., $) T ake a look at the novels on your shelves, with particular attention to their titles. Are some titles clearly. About the Author: Christopher Beha is the Executive Editor of Harper's Magazine. He is the author of a memoir, The Whole Five Feet, and the novels Arts Entertainments and What Happened to Sophie Wilder. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, the New York Times Book Review, and the London Review of Books, among other publications.
"Christopher Beha’s seductive-complex The Index of Self-Destructive Acts operates like a minute repeater, tiny hammers hitting separate gongs, producing multiple distinct tones but, ultimately, telling one time. And the time that Beha is telling is one that we know, but we haven’t heard it told quite like this. The Index of Self-Destructive Acts. Longlisted for the National Book Award. A New York Times Editors’ Choice. Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize. Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, The Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, and BuzzFeed. The Index of Self-Destructive Acts. by. Christopher R. Beha (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 1, ratings · reviews. The day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for The Interviewer, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A sports statistician, data journalist, and newly minted media celebrity who correctly forecasted every outcome of the election, Sam’s familiar with predicting the future.
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