POINTS OF INTEREST

* Listen to Christopher speak about The Whole Five Feet on WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show .

* The Whole Five Feet, Christopher's new memoir, was published May 6. Click below to learn more about the Five Foot Shelf, Charles Eliot's 51-volume liberal arts education, which Chris read over the course of a year.

* Read "A Partisan of Eternity," Christopher's reconsideration of Thornton Wilder, in The Believer.

*On the BBC, Professor John Mullen and Christopher Beha discuss whether Charles Eliot's "Five Foot Shelf "is still relevant. Listen here.