#AlexanderChee

[larks-birdhouse]

[ID: A Bluesky quote repost. The original post, from user Alexander Chee (@/alexanderchee), reads "This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers." The repost, from user Alana Vincent (@/alana-m-vincent), includes an image of a poem titled "For a Student Who Used AI To Write a Paper." The poem reads:

Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work. End ID]

Poem by Joseph Fasano (link)

Honestly, y'all, I'm begging you. Take the time to think and learn for yourself. Even if it's just something casual like knitting or cooking. Exercise your brain. It's important.

[lakitalki]

On Becoming an American Writer

“If you are reading this, and you’re a writer, and you, like me, are gripped with despair, when you think you might stop: Speak to your dead. Write for your dead. Tell them a story. What are you doing with this life? Let them hold you accountable. Let them make you bolder or more modest or louder or more loving, whatever it is, but ask them in, listen, and then write. And when war comes—and make no mistake, it is already here—be sure you write for the living too. The ones you love and the ones who are coming for your life. What will you give them when they get there?” https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/19/on-becoming-an-american-writer/

[sarah--adel]

The gentlest people I know are full of rage and grief.

[whattheysaid]

But after a few years, my father took issue with a story he'd heard about my teacher's arrogance toward his opponents, and he pulled me out of the classes. "It is very dangerous to teach in that spirit," he told me. And he said something I would never forget. "The best fighter in tae kwon do never fights," he said. "He always finds another way."

Alexander Chee, “What My Father Taught Me About Defending Myself In America” in GQ

[slatebritt-blog]

Outward Live in NYC

Date: June 27, 2019 7:00 PM EDT

Location: Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St, NYC (map)

Tickets: $35

Just Announced: Actors May Hong and Garcia, break out stars from Netflix’s Tales of the City, and author Alexander Chee!

Hey, NYC! Outward, Slate’s LGBTQ podcast and home for in-depth coverage of queer life, thought, and culture, is putting on a live show this June at World Pride! Join Slate staff writer Christina Cauterucci, Outward editor J. Bryan Lowder, New America associate editor Brandon Tensley, and special guests as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots and host a lively conversation about the issues animating queer communities today. Stick around for an audience Q&A, where you’ll have the chance to ask your burning questions live.

[kimmccreight]

#WIP 📚❤️📚 Give yourself the gift of reading the whole brilliant #alexanderchee essay about his time studying with Annie Dillard — link in my bio. #writing #writingcommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #writinglife #writer #writersofig #write #authorsofinstagram #writingquotes #writinginspiration #writingcommunity #writingmotivation #anniedillard #anniedillardquotes #amediting (at Brooklyn Writers Space) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmw6PTNvh33/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tumblingtumbleleaves]

[thelonelyqueenofthenight]

🌹She wanted only to be feared. I wanted to be feared and loved. I didn't want everything she had as she stood onstage that night. I wanted more.🌹 #Writer #AlexanderChee from #TheQueenoftheNight ______________________________________________________________ #Moonlight #Mood #ArtistofInstagram #ArtonInstagram #Artist #Theatre #TheatreKids #Music #Muse #Musician #Songwriter #Songbird #Womanist #Feminist #Femme #blackgirlsrock #blackgirlmagic #NewYork #NYC #NewYorkCity #RiotGrrrl (at Sky)

[subwaybookreview]

Stephanie: “The piece in the Spring issue of The Sewanee Review that blew my mind was ‘The Autobiography of My Novel’ by Alexander Chee. I could read his sentences about almost anything. It was part instructional essay about writing, part investigation of what we do when we make fiction out of our lives, part meditation on trauma, and full of deep wisdom. Mostly, I recognized a writer that I trusted to take me on a journey. Every day, people ask me if Sweetbitter is a memoir or fiction and I never quite know how to answer. Chee makes me feel ok about that. The whole question of: ‘Why didn’t you just write a memoir’, seems to be at the heart of his essay. There’s a quote in the book that’s perfect: ‘The story of your life, described, will not describe how you came to think about your life or yourself, nor describe any of what you learned. This is what fiction can do—I think it is even what fiction is for.’ I love that quote.” @smdanler #AlexanderChee #HowToWriteAnAutobiographicalNovel / @theubc for #subwaybookreview #newyork 🗽 (at MTA - Prince Street Subway Station - N/R)

[thebeautyinthestruggle]

Beautifully written tale of an excruciating account of child sex abuse and its wrought effects on not only the victims, but the abuser’s son. A poetic style is a break from the normal literary form that provides a sort of vacation for the reader, and this delivers. #edinburghnovel #alexanderchee #igreads #bookreview #instareads https://www.instagram.com/p/B0rUagLJ_hy1G_ME01bEz4jYG3ZRpvlh-16yio0/?igshid=sn09p7wv4vjm

[walkingzero1]

Book haul! #passenger #alexandriabracken #aknightofthesevenkingdoms #georgerrmartin #fallen #laurenkate #darkmatter #blakecrouch #queenofthenight #alexanderchee #carvethemark #veronicaroth

[nikkidolson]

“My advice to young writers is, if you can’t marry money, at least don’t marry envy.” - Ursula K. LeGuin, The Birthday of the World

(via @alexanderchee)

[par-ton-amour]

Yesterday I poemed while people waited at the @saicpics ballroom during the @chi_humanities. Check out the poems produced at @scribbles.and.sonnets! . . . . . #daniellelevsky #poetrycommunity #poetryisnotdead #writerscommunity #creativewriting #poets #poemswhileyouwait #chicagohumanitiesfestival #saic #alexanderchee #unflattening (at SAIC MacLean Ballroom)

[thelonelyqueenofthenight]

#Thursday #InBloom #Mood A legend in time.🥀 She wanted only to be feared. I wanted to be feared and loved. I didn't want everything she had as she stood onstage that night. I wanted more. 🥀 #Muse #AlexanderChee, from #TheQueenoftheNight pictured #BillieHoliday #JazzSinger #Freedom #Queendom #RockNRoll #Musician #TheSupreme #AlternativeGirl #Blues #Punk #Songbird #Glamour #Power #BlackGirlsRock #BlackGirlMagic #Femme #Womanist #Feminist #Legend (at New York, New York)

[ssravp]

Lots of reading planned this weekend. #reading #books #queenofthenight #alexanderchee

[badlands75]

Badlands75RT @alexanderchee: Joe Rogan is making as much as 100 million on Spotify while artists have to get 350 plays to make a dollar? I'd leave just over that.

RT @alexanderchee: Joe Rogan is making as much as 100 million on Spotify while artists have to get 350 plays to make a dollar? I'd leave just over that.

— The Modern Golem (@Badlands75) Jan 31, 2022

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