Tonight I’ll take a break from unpacking my boxes (I just moved) and read in New York City at Park Lit at 6:30PM, as a part of the series organized by Open City and on behalf of Guernica Magazine, with two writers I greatly admire, Terese Svoboda and Joshua Kors. I think I’m going to [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘author’s own’
June 14, 2010
Your Serial Will Be Served In the Morning
Hey gang. Thanks for checking back for the new installment in the summer serial. I’ll have it up in the late morning, around 11AM. Sorry for the delay.
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April 29, 2010
April 28th, 2010
I’ll return to updating here shortly, over the weekend. I haven’t forgotten you. It’s just that when I said earlier that novels sometimes ate everything in the room, this should be said to include blog posts. The above is a favorite image of the French actress Arletty, as Garance, the courtesan in Children of Paradise. [...]
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April 5, 2010
Use the Word ‘Erotic’ in an Aphorism
I was asked by the moderator of my upcoming panel at AWP on sex, writing and intimacy, for an aphorism using the word ‘erotic’. My aphorism: Most things described by the word ‘erotic’ aren’t, for some reason. It’s become a euphemism, a way to say the work is somehow safer than pornography, and suitable for [...]
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March 21, 2010
Alexander Chee at Redivider
An excerpt from my interview over at Redivider with editor Matt Salesses: AC:…I remember when I was a writing student in college feeling like literature was a big food court at the mall, and for being half-white and half-Asian, I was like, will I be able to work at the Korean restaurant, or at the [...]
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March 18, 2010
I Married Adventure
I sometimes have the urge in seaside towns to just take an apartment, go upstairs and rent it and close the door and write. This place is a little as if I’ve done that. I am in Florida on Manasota Key, at a residency at the Hermitage. It’s a less crowded Florida than I’m used [...]
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March 10, 2010
A Slightly Longer Report
What I Have Been Doing Finished a draft of my second novel, turned it in. Began revising it. Took out third novel draft, re-read it. Read from it twice. I did this because I went to San Francisco twice, to give readings and talks. Slightly related: spent Valentine’s in SF with my boyfriend. We rode [...]
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February 26, 2010
Alexander Chee at Forest Fire
My interview with the UC Irvine Undergraduate Creative Writing journal is up. Finally, what advice do you have for aspiring writers? AC: Know that what you think a story or novel is will determine what you will write–you will write to fit the shape of what you think a narrative is. So to be free [...]
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February 19, 2010
February 19th, 2010
I just completed an interview for the forthcoming issue of the University of California at Irvine’s undergraduate creative writing journal, New Forum. Here’s an excerpt: NF: Many writers including myself grapple with the fact that creative writing in American culture is for the most part considered leisure or hobby at best. There is an essential [...]
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January 8, 2010
January 8th, 2010
1. In a thread on Darcy Cosper’s facebook page, I learn that the New York Times forbids writing in the present tense, as it is technically a fiction, even when used in the presentation of nonfiction. 2. My old friend Gerard Koskovich, the historian and archivist, was shopping the yard sale of a young woman [...]
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