Chris Bohjalian's Writings
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Article
Dec.19.2012
The Armenian Weekly
We all have a little Forrest Gump in us. A bit of Leonard Zelig.
We’ve all had those moments when, suddenly, we are not merely witnesses to an instant fraught with meaning, but we are participants in the scene. We see ourselves both in the minute and with a cinematic distance: Camera pulls back wide to reveal the majesty of the spectacle, the sheer grandeur. And...
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Article
Jul.03.2012
The Armenian Weekly
(Originally published in The Armenian Weekly.)
by Chris Bohjalian
Sometimes my novels have positively elephantine gestation periods—and even that, in some cases, is an underestimate. A mother elephant carries her young for not quite two years; I have spent, in some cases, not quite two decades contemplating the tiniest seed of a story and wondering how it...
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Essay
Jul.03.2012
Red Room Original
by Chris Bohjalian
No one is ever going to mistake the Matenadaran for a bookstore. It sits on a hill in downtown Yerevan, a massive, 122-thousand-square-foot block of marble and basalt, its entrance shielded by statues of Armenian mathematicians, historians, theologians and the creator of the Armenian alphabet, Saint Mesrop Mashtots. It’s impressive and regal...
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Essay
Jun.22.2012
The Armenian Weekly
by Chris Bohjalian
Sometimes my novels have positively elephantine gestation periods—and even that, in some cases, is an underestimate. A mother elephant carries her young for not quite two years; I have spent, in some cases, not quite two decades contemplating the tiniest seed of a story and wondering how it might grow into a novel.
Moreover, in the quarter-...
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About Chris
Lincoln, Vermont’s Chris Bohjalian is the critically acclaimed author of 16 books, including eight New York Times bestsellers. His work has been translated into over 25 languages and three times become movies.
His epic novel of the Armenian Genocide, The...
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