Alexander Chee
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Alexander Chee on Staying Organized While Writing
The following is an edited excerpt from a conversation with Courtney Balestier on WMFA, a show about creativity and craft, and first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. * I was having difficulty managing all of my research, and I was having difficulty with keeping track of my thinking. There was a […] → Read More
How to Write Faster and Find Your Voice
A: Online chat rooms made me a fast typist. But I don’t know any single way to write faster, though for many of us it involves removing impediments to thought and the expression of thoughts… → Read More
Anti-Asian Violence Must Be a Bigger Part of America’s Racial Discourse
Alexander Chee and Cathy Park Hong on how the pandemic has cracked open discrimination against Asian American communities → Read More
What ‘Minari’ Means to Me
I’ve had the feeling of following the film Minari around for a few months now since the first time I saw the trailer last year. I guessed Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari would be different to me from just… → Read More
Your Questions Answered: How Have You Overcome Writers Block?
A misremembered quote, self forgiveness, and attending to the unmade decisions of a draft. → Read More
Finding Stonewall
For too long, I knew only part of the story of the riots of 1969. → Read More
The First Time I Moved to New York
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. → Read More
The Changeling
Alexander Chee considers the ways in which answering the question, "What are you?" turned him into a writer. → Read More
John Waters: “I think I am weirdly politically correct”
Not quite two years ago, John Waters, the legendary filmmaker, writer and self-described “filth elder,” had a viral moment (of the good kind)—his 2015 Rhode → Read More
The Courage of Being Queer
The LGBT community will turn grief into resolve after the Orlando massacre. → Read More
Our Well-Regulated Militia
Is the conversation around guns in this country really about the right to bear arms? Author Alexander Chee interrogates the proliferation of firearms and growing gun culture in the U.S., the complicated, polarized politics around gun control—and the notion that with more guns, we are somehow safer. → Read More
Literary Mixtape: Alexander Chee finds a heroine – with Beyoncé's help
When writing his novel set in the Second Empire in France, Alexander Chee found that a mix of Beyoncé, Azealia Banks and The Knife set the right mood for a story about ‘confident, bold, hilarious and sexy’ women of the era → Read More
Literary Mixtape: Alexander Chee finds a heroine – with Beyoncé's help
When writing his novel set in the Second Empire in France, Alexander Chee found that a mix of Beyoncé, Azealia Banks and The Knife set the right mood for a story about ‘confident, bold, hilarious and sexy’ women of the era → Read More
Can a Historical Novel Also Be Serious Literature?
What Leo Tolstoy and Hilary Mantel taught me about separating fact from fiction. → Read More
Heartbreak Hotel
Death and disappointment stalk a mysterious traveler in the author’s latest, Hotels of America. → Read More
Heartbreak Hotel
Death and disappointment stalk a mysterious traveler in the author’s latest, Hotels of America. → Read More
In Defense of the Present Tense
In 2010, the novelist Philip Hensher complained that half of that year's Man Booker nominees were novels written in the present tense. He insulted the choice, → Read More
Where Do We Go From Here?
We won marriage equality. But there's still more work to be done. → Read More
#FutureQueer: Looking Forward at Gay Culture in America
How will new marriage laws, mainstream culture, and technology shape LGBT life? → Read More
What Will Gay Culture Look Like in 2035?
LGBTQ activists and writers weigh in. → Read More