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"What Do You Do With Your Stories?"
A report from the end of the term, including some thoughts on teaching students to send work out as well as what magazines are even for.
 • Alexander Chee
The Clothes You Were
"They were always getting ready for a world that would never be ready for them."
 • Alexander Chee
He Loves New York So Much
On Missing New York, Mamdani, And Recent Events
 • Alexander Chee
The Cataclysm You Are Already Living Through
1. Sometimes, while my husband is driving us, I stick my phone up to or even out the window when the landscape moves me.
 • Alexander Chee
Like The Unfair Death Of Someone You Love
Following the trail of some old quotes in my thoughts about war, politics and art.
 • Alexander Chee
Have You Read All These Books?
Some thoughts on speculative fiction, realism, reading for pleasure, the literary internet, and teaching writing.
 • Alexander Chee
I Woke Up In New York With Someone Else’s Lipstick Still On My Cheek.
Some adventures with books in September, including the one I'm writing.
 • Alexander Chee
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