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Alexander Chee
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
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Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
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"The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
Screenshot text from article: Rooney told the court that this legal uncertainty affected her rights as an artist - and her publisher's too. "If ... Faber & Faber Limited are legally prohibited from paying me the royalties I am owed, my existing works may have to be withdrawn from sale," she said. "My novels have been influential and popular in Britain, where I am among the bestselling literary authors of the last decade. "The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression. "It is also almost certain that I can no longer publish or produce any new work within the UK while this proscription remains in effect." Rooney publicly revealed in September that she did not believe she could travel to the UK anymore because of her stance.
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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TBR is thick but these are near the top. Plus the newish Isherwood bio and Hidden Machinery, essays on writing by Margot Livesey.
A wooden reading stand with BRYAN WASHINGTON PALAVER a novel NOVA SCOTIA HOUSE A NOVEL by CHARLIE PORTER MiDDLE SPOON A Novel by Alejandro Varela Finalist for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD MURDER BIMBO REBECCA NOVACK
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Oh thanks. And so you can see the aesthetic a little better, the view from the couch.
Two orange and chrome chairs flank a table covered in books. Behind them, a credenza, with more books, and a built in bookshelf. And behind the credenza is an arc lamp.
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I’ll be damned if I know.
A view of my living room table and front book shelf, a tv set inside of it.
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Ramzi is in South Gaza, struggling to feed himself and his family, if you can help. chuffed.org/project/1319...
November 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Page 1 for the interested (I love how the novel opens). Hope to see you tonight. Mattilda is asking folks to wear masks.
The first time I met Sid she was on the dance floor in a silver and gold rube dress pulled over her head except it wasn't just a dress because the fabric went on and on and somehow she knew the exact spot on the dance floor where the light would shine right on her or that's how it felt when she was writhing inside this tube of fabric, pulling it up and down, a hand out and a hand in, and then her face exposed in harsh white makeup and black lipstick with long glittering eyelashes and then she rolled onto the floor, she was crawling or more like bending but also she was completely still in the bouncing lights and all this was happening on a crowded dance floor at the Limelight while I was sipping my cocktail and I didn't know what I was seeing I mean it felt like this went on forever, how many songs, it was like there wasn't even music anymore just my body inside the fabric peeking out and then she pulled the dress up around her neck like a huge elegant collar, and underneath she was wearing a gold bodysuit with a silver metallic skirt that flared out, with ballet slippers also painted gold and she walked right up to me and said what did you think. And I had no idea how she even saw me but I must have mumbled something because then she took my hand and said let's go upstairs, honey, and I thought we were going to the balcony but we went up the stairs in the back, and at the top she kissed the door person on both cheeks and then we went inside. And there was a whole other dance floor there, the club inside the club, and she guided me over to the bar and said: I can't believe she's gone. And then she said it again: I can't believe she's gone. And then she looked up at me and started laughing— oh honey, she said, I totally thought, I totally thought. And then she just stopped right there. I didn't know if she thought I was someone else, or if she thought—I really just didn't know. She said what are you drinking, honey, but she didn't wait for my answer she just ordered …
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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If you can help, Walid is raising money for winter clothing for his children in Gaza. And food of course. chuffed.org/project/1253...
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Nurse Hammam’s account was deleted but he’s still trying to prepare for the Gaza winter. Today came rain and his tent is flooding. www.paypal.com/paypalme/nur...
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Ramzi is trying to feed his family in Gaza, they’ve eaten nothing in three days. Can you join me in helping him? chuffed.org/project/1319...
November 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Second time we’ve had snow in my corner of Vermont this week. It hasn’t lasted yet so we’ll see.
About an inch or two of snow on a yard, a stone wall and trees. The sky is white with clouds, the trees are dark but lined with snow.
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Walid Alzaq is still surviving in Gaza with his beautiful family, still raising funds for their care and feeding, if you can help. chuffed.org/project/1253...
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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A long time ago in my aunt’s town, Rangeley, ME, we met a brilliant French photographer named Madeleine de Sinéty and her bookish son Peter, who has since grown up and as I just learned, translated this memoir by Pierre Guyotat, for @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
October 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Yes I will read Ron Currie’s revenge novel set in Waterville, ME.
A green hardcover book with a raven looking down at a smoking stubbed out cigarette, lipstick on the filter. Title in black: The SAVAGE, NOBLE DEATH of BABS DIONNE RON CURRIE AUTHOR OF EVERYTHING MATTERS!
October 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Tell me about it, Co-Star
Your day at a glance: You have a lot on your plate.
October 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Walid and his kids are back in the north of Gaza and need our help. chuffed.org/project/1253...
October 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Hello from Southern Maine.
A car in profile outfitted to resemble an LL Bean boot, complete with laces and the rubber sole. Text on the “ankle” reads GRAND OPENING L.L.Bean CONSUMER SQUARE New Hatford, NY Oct. 24-25
October 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Me in my aerobics teacher era, if also off-duty.
Me in 1986 on a sidewalk on the campus: Slender, in a tank top and khaki shorts, boat shoes I didn’t remember. A bag on the shoulder.
October 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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The cop on the left looks as if he’s admiring him. The cop to the right seems furious with him, as if he knows him and is getting ready to speak.
Two cops, one Black and one white, look at a well-dressed young white man with different intensities, and on his right two women, one white and one Asian, look differently worried.
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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I love how much story is just in the tensions between the police and the man with the umbrella in this photo. Or the apprehension on the face of the person behind the Fedora. Or the woman behind that person, who looks like she could be a film star also.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/s...
Caption: In a scene that confused many people on social media, a sharply-dressed man walked police officers blocking the entrance at the Louvre on Sunday. Thibault Camus/Associated Press
October 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Walid’s daughters keep coming up smiling no matter how terrible it gets in Gaza. Please help the family stay alive? chuffed.org/project/1253...
Two adorable Palestinian girls of about age 8, with light brown hair in pig tails, smiling and walking along a dirt corridor in a tent.
October 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Dinner with these two hotties at Izakaya Minato in Portland, thanks to @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social and @printbookstore.bsky.social.
A wooden bar at a Japanese Izakaya. A Negroni sits next to two books nonchalantly, as if it is not obsessed with them. They are THE ENGLISH UNDERSTAND WOOL HELEN DEWITT And Gabrielle Calvocoressi The New Economy A porcelain dish and chopsticks sit in the front of the image.
October 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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The Italian edition of my first novel, translated by the wonderful Chiara Buffa, is available later this week, 10/10/25, from NN Editore in Milan. And this cover makes my old teen witch heart glad.

www.nneditore.it/libro/979125...
An illustration of a fox dressed in the ribcage of a human, the eyes white with death or transfiguration, surrounded by red and blue-green leaves. The image has a large San serif bold N superimposed, with the image clear inside the letter and faintly colored by a rust orange fade otherwise, the trademark of the house, NN Editore. The text in white reads ALEXANDER CHEE Edimburgo NNE
October 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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The Mark Bibbins Brian Chanbers cat brothers.
A beautiful grey and white cat sitting in a wooden table. A beautiful grey and white cat sitting a white chair.
October 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Ramzi in his tent in Southern Gaza, now with a Binance link he is so proud to have created if you are inclined that way. Otherwise his Chuffed, if you can help, is here. He’s raised some tent rent and now needs food and water: chuffed.org/project/1319...
A young man in his tent, trees and water visible through the door.
October 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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lol yes search page sample
Various photos of mostly white men in various sages of undress. A man from the waist down in boxers, a shirtless man in a headdress, football players about to kiss, men with their feet in the air inexplicably. Some headlines from my search page on Instagram: THE HOT CONTESTANT WHO BROKE HARD QUIZ I was the only white guy Alright don't take the celebration too far fellast! ١٢٢ ٢ 37 There's one more! Russell Tovey names Jonathan Groff as his favourite on-screen kiss: "We had a very nice time"
September 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM