I have this theory that during the TV writers strike, people rediscovered reading. And I said nothing about that theory, for fear of course of being laughed at. But now book sales are up and still growing, and TV viewership is down and flat. Independent bookstores are reporting sales growth in the last year. American [...]
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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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