Tag: Alexander Chee

The fantasies Alexander Chee had of New York before he moved there didn’t fully prepare him for what it was like to love the city.

Alexander Chee considers the ways in which answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Masha Gessen, Molly Osberg, T. S. Mendola, Alexander Chee, and George Murray.

When Alexander Chee’s father died at 43, he left behind a trust that would set the course of his son’s life.

Longreads’ Essays Editor on the importance of budgeting for personal narratives.

Alexander Chee profiles Korean auteur Park Chan-wook.

Alexander Chee got sick the first time he drank gin. We’re glad he persevered.

The author sketches his way around Sifnos, capturing memories Moleskine notebook.

Alexander Chee didn’t realize that his boyfriend, M., was pretending to be someone content to be monogamous.

At The New Republic, novelist Alexander Chee has an essay/review of Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey, Ferrante’s new book of selected letters and interviews spanning nearly two-and-a-half decades.

Is the conversation around guns in this country really about the right to bear arms?

The first chapter from Alexander Chee’s much-anticipated second novel.

I think there’s a very interesting poetry moment going on culturally now. Part of what I’m experiencing with this nice reception of this book is the way being a female poet is a certain version of coming of age — poetry is very diaristic, small pieces, an art form you can realize — you wrote […]

At Catapult, Alexander Chee has a self-reflective essay about a period in the early aughts when he got to sublet a friend’s plum 19th-story apartment in Gramercy Park. She let him have it for just $900 per month, a steal, which took a great deal of financial pressure off of him. This was after the […]

When Alexander Chee was a struggling young writer, working as a cater-waiter for William F. and Pat Buckley.

The excellent and underfunded nonprofit art and politics magazine Guernica has a special issue this month dedicated to exploring the boundaries of gender. In it, novelist Alexander Chee writes about the surprising realizations he had the first time he dressed in drag for a night on the town with the man he loves: He is really spellbound, though, in a […]

The Op-Ed Economy meanwhile means that whatever the event, we’re treated to what is essentially “commentariat tryouts.” Twitter was already the free-floating comment section ready to wrap itself around whatever the topic is. But once CNN began reading tweets aloud on-air sometime around the first election of President Obama, and op-ed columns spread across every […]

A writer on his experience spending time in an artist colony—and why they actually work:  The poet in the studio next to me, Kathryn Levy, was at the time revising her work by reading it aloud, recording it, and playing it back to herself. The murmur of it was reassuring somehow. Years later, when I […]