Edward Carey Talks to Alexander Chee About Rewriting a Myth, and the Enduring...
Featured image from the UK cover of The Swallowed Man, by Edward Carey. The story of Pinocchio is something that has taken several shapes in my life. The first of course was the Disney story, known to...
View ArticleKeum Suk Gendry-Kim on the Symbolism of Trees and the Power of Black and...
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (The Waiting) and Alexander Chee (How to Write An Autobiographical Novel) spoke to one another as part of D+Q Live, a fall event series by the graphic novel publisher Drawn &...
View ArticleAlexander 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....
View ArticleAlexander Chee Recommends Natalia Ginzburg’s Novella Valentino
I began reading Natalia Ginzburg in translation in 2015, and as a result have read many introductions to her works by now. With each one I came to learn at least one new detail about her. She was born...
View ArticleNew Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang’s Hunger
In an interview she gave to The Morning News in 2005 Lan Samantha Chang described herself as someone who had at first wanted to write novels, many novels, but could not write stories more than 25 pages...
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