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Meet the artist behind your new favorite literary Instagram account.
These days, everything feels a little bit bleaker than usual. But one thing that genuinely made me smile as I was panic scrolling last week? The clever designs of Read Books, Serve Looks, otherwise...
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LIC Reading Series Live From Quarantine: Featuring Alexander Chee and Paul...
In the second episode of the LIC Reading Series’ Alumni Interviews From Quarantine, host Catherine LaSota talks with authors Paul Lisicky, author of Later: My Life at the Edge of the World and...
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Alexander Chee and Rebecca Solnit on Planting Seeds and Activism
Bookable features established authors and emerging talent in conversation with host and author Amanda Stern, perhaps best known for creating the Happy Ending Music & Reading Series at New York’s...
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LIC Reading Series: Alexander Chee, Jonathan Lee, and Natalie S. Harnett
Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It’s right here at LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in...
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Who are America’s most talented but under-appreciated writers?
Every year, Longwood University’s John Dos Passos Prize sets out to celebrate one vital but under-appreciated writer. Previous recipients include Colson Whitehead, Tom Wolfe, and Annie Proulx....
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Alexander Chee on How a Single Story Can Contain Many Rooms
Writing can be lonely work; WMFA counters that with conversation. It’s a show about creativity and craft, where writer and host Courtney Balestier talks shop with some of today’s best writers and...
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Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America
The stories we tell about ourselves say a lot about how we’d like to be seen. Here’s mine: Before it was the Pacific heir to the American century, China was an apparition lodged in the back of my...
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A ‘How to Write’ Craft Syllabus From Non-White, Non-Cis Writers
Some familiar names occupy the bestseller lists for writing direction, authors who’ve secured their reputations in giving advice to other writers. They’ve found just the right recipe combining...
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Here are the United States Artists’ 2021 Writing Fellows.
Here’s some wonderful literary news to start your morning (drumroll, please): today, United States Artists (USA) announced its 2021 USA Fellows, which includes eight writers. The award honors the...
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Edward Carey Talks to Alexander Chee About Rewriting a Myth, and the Enduring...
Featured image from the UK cover of The Swallowed Man, by Edward Carey. The story of Pinocchio is something that has taken several shapes in my life. The first of course was the Disney story, known to...
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10 writers we’d like to see as politicians.
On this day in 1945, ardent lover of the working class man (and woman, of all classes) Pablo Neruda was elected as a communist senator for the northern Chilean provinces. Neruda, long an admirer of...
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Here are the literary Guggenheim Fellows of 2021.
Today, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the recipients of its 2021 fellowships, chosen through a peer-review process from nearly three thousand applicants. Of the 184...
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Alexander Chee, Morgan Parker, and Emma Straub on the Life of a Writer in NYC
To celebrate the 100th episode of The Maris Review, Maris Kreizman hosts a special episode with guests Alexander Chee, Morgan Parker, and Emma Straub. * From the conversation: ES: My life at BookCourt...
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“Write as if you were dying.” Read Annie Dillard’s greatest writing advice.
Annie Dillard, one of our best writers, is also one of our best teachers. We know because her students—and her readers—keep telling us. In Alexander Chee’s How to Write An Autobiographical Novel,...
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34 books for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (and all months).
Yes, it might seem a little late in May for an Asian Pacific American Heritage Month reading list. This is partially due to my extreme procrastination, partially due to the fact that I kept wanting to...
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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim on the Symbolism of Trees and the Power of Black and...
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (The Waiting) and Alexander Chee (How to Write An Autobiographical Novel) spoke to one another as part of D+Q Live, a fall event series by the graphic novel publisher Drawn &...
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81 Writers on the Books They Loved in 2021
Two years and running. The changed world in which we’re living has stayed altered, and in 2021 the quiet of lockdowns was exchanged for different silences—of mourning; of a steady, grinding...
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Endnotes on Experimentation: Sheila Heti, Alexander Chee, and More Voices...
This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wanted...
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Alexander Chee on Staying Organized While Writing
The following is an edited excerpt from a conversation with Courtney Balestier on WMFA, a show about creativity and craft, and first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here....
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Here are the guest editors for the Best American Series 2022.
Do you like the Best American series? Of course you do! Each book in the annual series showcases of best short fiction and nonfiction in a given year, from short stories to essays, science and nature...
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