As a student of writing in Annie Dillard’s class at Wesleyan in the spring of 1989, she taught us a way of using the Best American anthologies as a roadmap to contemporary publishing, a real tool for writers–it wasn’t just an honor roll. Annie herself, it turned out, was editing an edition of that anthology, [...]
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This is the blog of author Alexander Chee. My first novel, Edinburgh, is in paperback from Picador.
My second novel, The Queen of the Night, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
“Love is something illimitable; and a lot of people spend their limited lives trying to prevent anything illimitable from happening to them.”
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