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Alexander Chee reads from The Queen of the Night, followed by a public conversation with Darin Strauss and a reception
April 15th, 7PM
The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House at NYU
58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues. Posted 4/14/10



Alexander Chee at the Morning News
My memoir of studying with Annie Dillard at Wesleyan, from Mentors, Muses & Monsters, featured over at the Morning News. Posted 10/16/09


Alexander Chee at the Writers' Center
I'm reading at The Writers' Center in Bethesda, Maryland, Oct. 2, with poet Srikanth Reddy and musical guest Bluebrain. 7:30-9:30PM. Posted 9/20/09


Alexander Chee in Mentors, Muses & Monsters
My essay "Annie Dillard and the Writing Life" appears this fall in Mentors, Muses & Monsters, edited by Elizabeth Benedict, published by the Free Press/Simon & Schuster. In stores Oct. 27th, 2009. Posted 9/20/09


Alexander Chee and Maud Newton on Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford at Granta.com
Maud Newton and I discuss the novels Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford wrote after their affair over at Granta.com. Posted 9/20/09


Alexander Chee on Granta.com
John Freeman at Granta invited me to be one of the writers contributing short memoirs of their fathers, over at Granta.com. The web pieces are a supplement to the Fathers issue in the print edition, and it’s a fascinating series, with pieces by Jonathan Lethem, Gary Shteyngart, Jess Row, Ali Smith, Maud Newton and Ben Anastas, among others. Please click and check them out.

This piece is part of something longer, a nonfiction novel inspired a little–formally–by J.M. Coetzee’s third-person memoirs (Boyhood in particular). Posted 3/20/09