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Cris Beam

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CRIS BEAM is a journalist who has written for several national magazines as well as for public radio. She has an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Columbia and the New School. She lives in New York.


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Average rating: 3.75 · 2,115 ratings · 353 reviews · 5 distinct works · Similar authors
I Am J
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 1,826 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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Transparent: Love, Family, ...
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Mother, Stranger
3.1 of 5 stars 3.10 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2012
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To the End of June: The Int...
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2013
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Fostering
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Quotes by Cris Beam

“I guess it's about what you have to give up to gain something else...Did you always have to give something up for a gain?”
― Cris Beam, I Am J
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“People will see whatever they want to see. Parallax.”
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“Inside, a piece of him cracked; it was as though an emotion that had calcified into bone got tapped with a tiny hammer and splintered straight through.”
― Cris Beam, I Am J
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