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Alexander Chee

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads May 21, 2021October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Nathan Thrall, H. Claire Brown, Alexander Chee, Jean Garnett, and Erica Lenti.

Posted inEditor's Pick

What My Korean Father Taught Me About Defending Myself in America

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 20, 2021October 19, 2022

“And he said something I would never forget. ‘The best fighter in tae kwon do never fights,’ he said. ‘He always finds another way.”

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads March 19, 2021October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Alexander Chee, Matt Gallagher, Delphine Minoui, Lauren Markham, and Jamie Figueroa.

Posted inEditor's Pick

‘Our Stories Are Still Filtered Through Whiteness’

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 16, 2021October 19, 2022

“White people still drive the narrative about Asian Americans. We have yet to have control over our own stories.”

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads November 1, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Allie Conti, Joe Sexton and Nate Schweber, Alexander Chee, Nell Scovell, and Bee Wilson.

Posted inEditor's Pick

How to Grieve Your Friend and Mentor

by Sari Botton December 20, 2018October 19, 2022

In this moving personal essay, Amy Jo Burns writes about how the death of her writing mentor, Louise DeSalvo, has affected her, and how reading Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, and Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend helped her process her grief.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The First Time I Moved to New York

by Sari Botton October 29, 2018October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

The First Time I Moved to New York

by Alexander Chee October 29, 2018October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

The First Time I Moved to New York

by Alexander Chee October 29, 2018October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Changeling

by Sari Botton April 18, 2018October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which How to Write an Autobiographical Novel author Alexander Chee considers how answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.

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