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Alexander Chee
3 months
People often react to descriptions of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower by saying they’re afraid of it. So I want to say I found it grounding and sane-making. The narrator’s relentless hope for a better life and world and how she works to make it happen is even inspiring.
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Alexander Chee
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Alice Munro’s children deciding they mattered to each other more than what separated them is moving and inspiring.
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Madeleine Thien
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"We’re heading to an era where we’re going to start to tell the truth and it can’t hide anymore." The way the siblings have come together, and acknowledged their roles, their love, and their pain, is rare. So very, very rare.
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Alexander Chee
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The cost for this vastly exceeds the ticket revenue. Make the buses free.
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Gothamist
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The MTA plans to deploy unarmed guards onto buses. Those guards will be directed to look out for riders who skip the fare and escort them off the bus at stops staffed by NYPD officers, who could issue a summons ranging from $50 to $100 and, in some cases, make an arrest.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
Andy Roddick as chaos muppet in the replies, I did not know this secret identity.
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Alexander Chee
10 days
Pedro Pascal posting queer heartbreak to Instagram, help he is hotter than ever now.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
This is a devastating story. My respect to Andrea Munro and her siblings.
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sarah hagi
3 months
you can read without the paywall here
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Alexander Chee
3 months
Hi friends, I am back with a new account. Starting over from 0. I just missed everybody.
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Alexander Chee
2 months
Donating to @RashidaTlaib ’s campaign fund today to thank her as I’m sure she faces incredible pressure but also because she had to conduct her protest of Netanyahu on her birthday.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
Mary Robison, one of my first teachers, beloved by me for her ability to just drop something like this answer.
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“So much of humor is stock, and I want to steer away from that. Buttering the tie and slipping on the banana peel … I get it, you’re watching someone be ridiculous, but you don’t know the tie-butterer.” —Mary Robison
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Alexander Chee
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‘“What they don’t like is that I am now applying the same social justice journalism principles that I’ve applied to race and that I’ve applied to LGBTQ people, to COVID and HIV, that I was now applying those to Palestine,” says Thrasher.’
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Democracy Now!
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EXCLUSIVE: Northwestern Suspends Journalism Professor Steven Thrasher After Gaza Solidarity Protest
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Alexander Chee
3 months
The novel begins July 20, 2024. As her world falls apart she asks herself, how can I hold on to what matters and how can I find people to help me do that. She takes her answers and makes her way, again and again, offers lessons. Some intentional, some not. I was glad to read it.
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Alexander Chee
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I would like to thank Vogue Korea for their innate understanding of my needs.
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Vogue Korea knew exactly what they were doing and who they were doing it for with this photo of yeji kim
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Alexander Chee
2 months
She did this while people held signs that read “Mass Deportation.”
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Cristela Alonzo
2 months
People awkwardly clapped when Usha Vance mentioned her parents were immigrants from India and that this country allowed them to meet and fall in love… Someone tell her the party thinks that’s the problem.
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Alexander Chee
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This is Kim Go Eun and Steve Sang Hyun Noh, the leads for Love In The Big City at TIFF 2024. Adapted from Sang Young Park’s novel(!).
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INSANE FACECARDS
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Alexander Chee
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"We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay." - Lynda Barry, WHAT IT IS
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Alexander Chee
2 months
This is wild. Just their teacher pensions.
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Stephen Neukam
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Tim Walz and his wife don't own a single stock, according to financial disclosures. No mutual funds, no bonds, no book deals. via @danprimack
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Alexander Chee
3 months
We are visiting my sister in Maine and this morning my husband has fixed a toilet seat, snaked a drain and caught a mouse with some help from my sister's cats. He is always handy but today he's hit new levels. This was all before noon.
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Alexander Chee
2 months
Many years ago I was obsessed with this Anne Sexton story, The Letting Down of Hair, a reinvented Rapunzel. It called to me again tonight and I found it in the Atlantic’s archives:
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Alexander Chee
1 month
I taught this novel about six years ago and my students especially loved one of the characters, a woman living in an open marriage with children by her different lovers. They could not stop talking about her.
@DauntBooksPub
DauntBooksPublishing
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Natalia Ginzburg is back! In May 2025 we publish her epistolary novel THE CITY AND THE HOUSE (tr by Dick Davis), with a new intro by Natasha Brown. Cover by @emmapoppie
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Alexander Chee
2 months
Cast her in anything she wants.
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Del Walker 🇵🇸
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The most "Main Character Energy" I've ever seen in my life.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
Sometimes, in a small rural town in Maine, it’s great to have a group of kids run by you wearing Pride flags as capes, waving Trans flags, laughing and talking about their Ren Fair plans and how much they love their yellow circle skirt. And then to realize it’s Pride.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
Good practice for a life writing poetry.
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Toe-Knee 🇨🇦
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Poet Wallace Stevens was an alligator wrestler in his youth.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
@Kristen_Arnett My gay business is eternal though
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Alexander Chee
3 months
Went a little wild at the bookstores yesterday but got most of what I went looking for.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
I look forward to the disposal of Vance per the path taken by everyone Trump has ever appointed around him.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
Sitting on a hill with some neighbors and gossiping while listening to frogs, drinking a little gin and watching the fireflies flicker all up and down the grass. The littlest bit of rain, just a few drops, then nothing.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
Heading to Montreal today with a small half-empty suitcase I hope to fill with books and spices. There is the car also but I hope to exercise a little restraint. My husband Dustin has never been and it was time to fix that.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
I’m grateful for and honored by this inclusion by @mariskreizman , especially as she reads more than most people I know in our industry.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
A powerful memoir to keep for when you need to talk to an older writer friend but can’t for whatever reason. It’s about how to prepare for when hope much less success feels far away. The galley kept me good company during a hard spring.
@yignarski
Yuka Igarashi
3 months
Out next week 🧨
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Alexander Chee
2 months
I’d gotten out of the habit of using leftover coffee as coffee iced cubes for iced coffee but I’m so happy I remembered a few days ago. In time for this morning.
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Alexander Chee
2 months
Does anyone remember a personal essay written in the form of a syllabus?
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Alexander Chee
2 months
I still can't seem to change my user name out of this lurker goblin mode handle but perhaps this is just my goblin era. I still can't get back into my old account.
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Alexander Chee
2 months
I learned to read at high speeds accidentally, reading fantasy and science fiction and gay pot boilers at B Dalton’s while my mom ran errands at the Maine Mall. We had a library in my town but I wanted the new books faster than they got them and I always ran through my allowance.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
The cowardice of this.
@TheCradleMedia
The Cradle
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US House bars use of official Gaza death toll
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Alexander Chee
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Thank you, Brandon, coming from you--your high esteem for this novel has always been its own prize.
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Alexander Chee
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Always amazed by the things Edmund White knows and how casually and yet precisely he brings them out. His read of Malaparte’s French diary is like sitting with him next to a basket as he pulls out horrors and treasures and holds them out to you.
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Alexander Chee
2 months
Love My Way is one of those songs that sneaks up on me when I’m out in public and I feel a little rescued every time.
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Alexander Chee
2 months
“An invite to a party in a book means you go.” — my husband, urging me to make this novel messier
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Alexander Chee
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This is so utterly heartless. It demeans those fired and @Stanford at the same time.
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Preposition
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PREPOSITION responds to the @Stanford Red Wedding: "I write to express my tremendous disappointment in the decision summarily to terminate the employment of twenty-three Creative Writing lecturers..."
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Alexander Chee
2 months
This is thrilling.
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Hyunsu Yim
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🚨BREAKING: SOUTH KOREA TOP COURT UPHOLDS RULING THAT SAME-SEX COUPLES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR EQUAL SPOUSAL BENEFITS OF NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AS STRAIGHT COUPLES
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Alexander Chee
2 months
Still reeling from learning a friend was the voice of Jif peanut butter for over 20 years—“Choosy mothers choose Jif.”
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Alexander Chee
3 months
Thinking back to last October and how many of the articles noted without context that nearly half of the residents of Gaza were children. Like it was some isolated fact. Who of you will say the rest of it, I kept thinking, and of what I read, NPR came closest. Named the question.
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Alexander Chee
24 days
These absolute clowns cheering in a fundraising text to me that Liz Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris. Liz Cheney of the Iraq Working Group at the State Department during the Bush Administration? Who wanted war with Iran too? I never want to hear from her. I don’t care how she votes.
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Alexander Chee
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I’m guessing it will be harder to replace Trump on the ticket than it was Biden.
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Alexander Chee
2 months
This is so bleak.
@LurieFavors
Lurie Daniel Favors Esq.
2 months
Restating for precision: Nate Silver - leading pollster pushing for Biden to drop out - now works for a company funded by Peter Theil…who is also funding GOP VP candidate JD Vance:
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Alexander Chee
2 months
How many of these brave surgeons must come forward? Here is another.
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Bruno Maçães
2 months
Please take a moment to read and share my interview with a surgeon who spent two weeks at the European hospital in Gaza. What he saw: many children shot in head and chest by Israeli snipers, death by malnutrition, epidemics, endless suffering
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Alexander Chee
3 months
Grabbed this on 94 headed to Hudson, WI. We’re on the tail end of a long family trip, flying back to Vermont tomorrow. Exceptional clouds on this trip.
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Alexander Chee
2 months
This conversation was a pleasure. @BaizeShephard is a writer I have loved since I found his essays on Gawker back in 2012. @DeeshaPhilyaw blew me away with The Secret Lives of Church Ladies in 2020. I’m grateful to them for including me in this series.
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Mark Armstrong
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More breaking news this morning. 🚨 The brilliant Alexander Chee ( @alexander_61609 ) is on Reckon True Stories with @DeeshaPhilyaw and @BaizeShephard ! ❤️ Go listen: #longreads #longform
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Alexander Chee
3 months
I did vote in the NYT Best Books of the 21st century so far feature but no, I didn’t vote for myself, and I didn’t want my roster public for several reasons including that I could answer the question every day and my answers would change. Maybe not all of them but many.
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Alexander Chee
2 months
Boyfriendpilled. It’s like rain on dry land. Coffee truck, cute queer Asian men, comedian commentators. Nerds. Soft clapping. I don’t even like reality TV and I’m in.
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Alexander Chee
2 months
Saw the most masks I’ve seen at the food co-op tonight in years. It was really encouraging given NH and VT are having a surge.
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Alexander Chee
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@anylaurie16 @JetBlue Uh wow what a colossal cockup
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Alexander Chee
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I signed. Solidarity with @thrasherxy @NorthwesternU must reinstate him without conditions.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
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"We call on Northwestern to reject this new McCarthyism and to reinstate without condition our colleague, Dr. Steven Thrasher." As academics, journalists + health professionals we write to express solidarity w/ @thrasherxy and reject his appalling persecution by @NorthwesternU .
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Alexander Chee
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Are there graduate programs for students writing YA Fantasy, or do they have a different path in this life? I am trying to advise a few students about this, and all I can think of is Clarion and possibly UC Riverside.
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Alexander Chee
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LinkedIn, the ghost ship of my professional life.
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Alexander Chee
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Some @nyrbclassics favorites. Beloved even.
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Alexander Chee
2 months
My husband is making his way through the new biography of Christopher Isherwood like it’s a crime novel.
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Alexander Chee
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It can be maddening as a writer to hear your book is brilliant but the editor says, “I don’t see how I can publish it.” But given his record, it may be that @groveatlantic editor @peterblackstock will see how. An insightful interview with him at @Post_45 :
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Alexander Chee
3 months
Now I want to teach a Stories That Will Unsettle You For Life seminar.
@emdashklatt
emily!
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Update: I am now a teacher and I can’t wait to assign my students a short story so unsettling it haunts them for the rest of their lives
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Alexander Chee
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I guess somebody’s curse worked.
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Alexander Chee
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@saintsoftness Arboreality, by Rebecca Campbell, imagines librarians trying to save an archive as the world’s climate collapses, and it is wonderful.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
I will be teaching these.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
Oh… I feel like a lot of us know what he’s going to say.
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Alexander Chee
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She was a shadow, kept alive by a flame of hatred for somebody who had long ago forgotten all about her. --Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
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Alexander Chee
3 months
@blgtylr Thanks for texting to check. 💖
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Alexander Chee
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Every new Trump favorite has that wild eyed look in their eyes for a few days like they’ll be different from all the others he used up and threw away. And you can see it go out of their eyes, photo by photo.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
@anylaurie16 Hoping you’re not in a Lost reboot
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Alexander Chee
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In my sister’s guest room, visiting with some of the books I’ve given her over the decades, a story in itself.
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Alexander Chee
2 months
Ok I’m in. Join me?
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Alexander Chee
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Bleak. Blech.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
Love this story so much, from the burro being named Diesel to the former owners who wish him well with his new elk family.
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Alexander Chee
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I couldn’t be there tonight but cheered from Vermont. I love this glimpse @reluctantlyjoe texted me of him and @AntonHur celebrating Anton’s launch of Toward Eternity at @yuandmebooks .
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Alexander Chee
2 months
“Seventeen years ago, there was too much going on.” When Mary Gaitskill writes something like that, I’m in.
@_josiemitchell
josie mitchell
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such a pleasure to work with Mary Gaitskill on this strange essay, and to see how she expresses uncanny and unknowable things with such clear prose (available to read for free right now)
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Alexander Chee
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Criminalizing homelessness has a new context.
@TomNamako
Tom Namako
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A 10-month @NBCNews investigation reveals how the corpses of the poor were systematically cut up and leased out — to major medtech companies, universities, the Army and beyond — as part of a flourishing business. When confronted by our reporters, the program was suspended, the
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Alexander Chee
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Went through an old blog looking for a post and found… 260 drafts?
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Alexander Chee
2 months
Mood-boarding my Leo Season.
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@ambernoelle I was very moved by Emma Straub’s This Time Tomorrow, and found the use of time travel in it intricate and clever. I will add that I almost never feel that way about time travel.
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Alexander Chee
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I had some more thoughts about Octavia Butler and Parable of the Sower, and wrote about it for my newsletter.
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Alexander Chee
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Please join me in donating if you can.
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verda
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Muhannad ( @igazaf ) has only received one donation since his campaign launched nearly a month ago. Please be one of his first supported by donating whatever amount you can ‼️♥️
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Alexander Chee
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The nonstop fundraising texts are now asking me who I want if not Biden.
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Alexander Chee
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@smathewss I always thought of her whole project as punking the idea that any connection between author and life could be made and be meaningful.
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Alexander Chee
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Congratulations to Stephen King on having enough therapy to heal from growing up in Maine and pick himself. I’m not there yet.
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Alexander Chee
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@likaluca “I don’t like to learn” is what I’ve also heard, and it’s all sad and creepy.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
An honor and a thrill to be a guest on this new podcast from @ursastory hosted by @BaizeShephard and @DeeshaPhilyaw .
@ursastory
Ursa Story Company
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We'll have new episodes every Tuesday during Season One, with guests including Roxane Gay, @alexander_61609 , @MindaHoney , @imaniperry , Samantha Irby, and @NifMuhammad .
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Alexander Chee
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I didn't marry Dustin because he was handy, but it just turned out he'd be one of the first people I'd pick for my team in a Zombie apocalypse.
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Alexander Chee
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@iramadisonthree seeing the white all the way around those irises
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Alexander Chee
2 months
Maybe it's an essay at least.
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Alexander Chee
3 months
If only E. M. Forster could have written an essay about the love advice he gave J. R. Ackerley— how “you must give up this idea of ownership, and even the idea of being owned.” He died with three different young men named after him, the sons of three of his married lovers.
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Teddy (T.M.) Brown
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Every open marriage personal essay seems to treat the concept as the final weigh station before divorce. There seem to be open marriages that work, but none of them involve writers.
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Alexander Chee
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While talking about old jobs and waiting tables in therapy I learned my therapist is a former chef, and it occurred to me this could be, in other hands, the basis for some kind of sitcom.
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Alexander Chee
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@TheLincoln We were asked. I didn’t vote for myself. And I said no.
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Alexander Chee
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One of my favorite novels from last year.
@RSLiterature
Royal Society of Literature
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We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 #EncoreAward is Isabella Hammad for ‘Enter Ghost’ 🎉 ( @JonathanCape @vintagebooks ) Congratulations Isabella! 👏
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Alexander Chee
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“Who?”
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Stephen L. Miller
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JD Vance Secret Service names. Go.
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