Christopher  Bowen

more photos (1)

year in books

Christopher Bowen’s Followers (32)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
Ben
Ben
572 books | 1,628 friends

Red Hen...
434 books | 1,260 friends

Doubled...
656 books | 5,102 friends

Kathy
1,641 books | 2,259 friends

Shome D...
2,549 books | 432 friends

Minotau...
792 books | 2,092 friends

Crown P...
468 books | 1,855 friends

Bellevu...
133 books | 374 friends

More friends…

Christopher Bowen

Goodreads Author


Born
in The United States
Website

Genre

Member Since
February 2010

URL


Christopher Bowen is the author of the chapbook We Were Giants, the novella When I Return to You, I Will Be Unfed, and the non-fiction Debt. He was a semi-finalist in the 2017 Faulkner-Wisdom Novella Competition and honorable mention in the 45th New Millennium Writing Awards in the non-fiction category. His short story collection, The Things They Forgot to Tell Us When They Left, is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press.

Average rating: 4.05 · 41 ratings · 19 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
When I Return to You, I Wil...

3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
We Were Giants

4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013
Rate this book
Clear rating
This Handbook Will Change Y...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

2 Drafts

Time Machine He leaned in, blue curtains drawn around them like big sky, he reached her. The bed bent upright and crooked; machines beeped. She wrapped her fist around the blanket and clenched it atop…

The post 2 Drafts first appeared on Burning River.
 •  0 comments  •  flag
Share on Twitter
Published on August 04, 2024 20:02
Sundog
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Plainsong
Christopher is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Something Wicked ...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 

Christopher’s Recent Updates

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
"Smart, pithy, original and, of course, poetic. “Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being." Read more of this review »
Christopher rated a book liked it
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Rate this book
Clear rating
Christopher wants to read
The Last Messiah by Peter Wessel Zapffe
Rate this book
Clear rating
Christopher started reading
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Rate this book
Clear rating
Christopher is currently reading
Sundog by Jim Harrison
Rate this book
Clear rating
Christopher is currently reading
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Rate this book
Clear rating
Christopher rated a book liked it
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Rate this book
Clear rating
A Silent Treatment by Jeannie Vanasco
"Vanasco invites the reader to think about memoir differently as they read.

“That’s why I get so frustrated, I continue, when people think memoir is strictly about the past. We tell stories about the past to make sense of why we feel or think the way " Read more of this review »
Christopher is currently reading
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Rate this book
Clear rating
Christopher is currently reading
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Rate this book
Clear rating
More of Christopher's books…
Dave Eggers
“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
dave eggers
tags: life

Anaïs Nin
“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anaïs Nin

Dave Eggers
“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
Dave Eggers, What Is the What

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
Rumi

Ram Dass
“We're all just walking each other home.”
Ram Dass

220 Goodreads Librarians Group — 313863 members — last activity 1 minute ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
31471 THE Group for Authors! — 12984 members — last activity Feb 12, 2026 10:59PM
This is a group for authors to discuss their craft, as well as publishing and book marketing.
799440 Indie and Self-Published Author Support — 1114 members — last activity Feb 22, 2026 10:48PM
Breaking into the world of writing through the self-publishing gateway can be daunting and overwhelming. This is a support group where indie and aspir ...more
No comments have been added yet.