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This week I found myself reading way too much about the Democratic primary. To what extent is the expressed dislike of Hillary rooted in sexism? Is being the first woman…
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Alexander Chee
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Notable NYC: 2/6–2/12
Saturday 2/6: John Wray and Will Sheff celebrate the launch of The Lost Time Accidents, Wray’s new novel. BookCourt, 6 p.m., free. Liz Howard and Lanny Jordan Jackson join the…
The Rumpus Interview with Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee talks about opera, the Wild West, and the charismatic women of 19th-century France that inspired his new novel The Queen of the Night.
Notable NYC: 1/30–2/5
Saturday 1/30: Rick Moody talks with Dave Schramm and will play a selection of live music. Little City Books (Hoboken), 8 p.m., $25. Michael Morse, Kristina Bicher, Mary Lou Buschi,…
The Writer and Social Media
Alexander Chee writes for LitHub on Elena Ferrante’s pseudonymous, social-media-free existence and the choices other authors have made to dis/engage with social media at points in their careers: Ferrante’s anonymity…
Propelling Stories
Catapult.co, a new literary website and publishing startup powered by Electric Literature and Black Balloon Publishing, debuted online yesterday. It features, among an impressive list of fiction and nonfiction pieces, a…
Notable NYC: 9/12–9/18
Saturday 9/12: Nicole Cooley, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Kathleen Ossip, D. Nurkse, Lynn Emmanuel, Tom Sleigh, and Sarah Arvio celebrate The Plume Anthology of Poetry 3. BookCourt, 4 p.m., free. Ellen Urbani…
On the Right to Write in the Present
When I move from first to third person, or second, if I keep the present tense, it is not because what happens is somehow cinematic to me—it is perhaps closer…
Another Order
In an essay reprinted over at Longreads, Alexander Chee looks back on finishing his MFA, moving back to New York, and the interiority of class that cater-waitering allowed him to…
The Neverending Story
Did Harry Potter turn us into serial readers? Alexander Chee suggests J.K. Rowling and Karl Ove Knausgaard aren’t all that different: We are all after that word-lust, the novel that…
This Week in Short Fiction: A Guide to AWP
It’s that time of year again, where writers young and old, from all corners of the country, come to congregate in one gigantic, frenetic, neurotic, alcohol-infused crowd, in a couple…