2008 May 15 « Koreanish

May 15, 2008

From the Letters of Count Leo Tolstoy, May 14, 1887

It’s late, and almost early. The semester is over and I’ve been receiving finals all day from students. I was about to go to bed and I thought, there’s something for me in these Tolstoy letters. Look and see if there’s something for this day. I found this, and it seemed like a suitable message [...]

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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.
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