Jane Kokernak at leafstitchword sent me over to Wordle today.
Below is a word cloud using the pages of my unfinished new novel, The Queen of the Night, that I read from at the Wesleyan Writers Conference last week.
And this is of my essay up at Guernica.
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Me on James Salter at The Paris Review Daily. Me on studying with Annie Dillard, learning to use an e-reader, and the racial unconscious of the United States as seen in our superhero comics.
A a copy of my first novel at your favorite retailer of choice.
Edinburgh is in print from the good people at Picador. Here are some reactions to it:
…Alexander Chee’s Edinburgh, fucking incredible son of a bitch...
— Junot Diaz, over at Austinist
Alexander Chee is the best new novelist I’ve seen in some time. Edinburgh is moody, dramatic—and pure.
— Edmund White
Edinburgh has the force of a dream and the heft of a life. And Alexander Chee is a brilliant new writer.
— Annie Dillard
Haunting… complex… sophisticated. [Chee] says volumes with just a few incendiary words.
— The New York Times Book Review
A coming-of-age novel in the grand Romantic tradition, where passions run high, Cupid stalks Psyche, and love shares the dance floor with death . . . A lovely, nuanced, never predictable portrait of a creative soul in the throes of becoming.
— The Washington Post Book World
Chee is a gifted, poetic writer who takes big risks…This novel marks the debut of a major talent whose career will bear watching.
— Publishers Weekly
A striking debut…A complex story told with skill and intensity, but also filled with moments when agony and extraordinary beauty somehow coexist.
— Kirkus Reviews
A complex, sophisticated, elegant investigation of trauma and desire - like a white hot flame.— Joyce Hackett, in the Guardian UK
A second novel will be out soon, but not really soon, as it is still being edited. When it appears, it will be called "The Queen of the Night" and say "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt" on the spine, plus my name. Details will appear here and also on alexanderchee.net.
Hey, I just did that with something I wrote, too! The internet is a machine built to spread viruses, it seems.
I love it, but now that you’ve both done it, I just can’t. It looks fantastic, though. So maybe I’ll reconsider in a couple of years… like reading that Dan Brown book.
I’m all over it.. but you’ve got the wrong link up!
wordle.net
Thanks, Tayari. Link is fixed!
RJ: I actually would really love to see yours. So I hope you change your mind sooner than later.
BRB: At the least. Language also is built for that. A la Laurie Anderson…
I like how your Queen of the Night pages have this huge ‘dark’ right in the middle, and ‘neverwhere’ becomes an idea of its own.
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