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On What I Learned Editing Best American Essays 2022
Some thoughts on how reading thousands of essays in a year changed me
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What Is A Novel For? The Session 2 Thread
Dear Reader, Thank you to everyone who is participating in this experiment. While those of you who are not registered for the class are welcome …
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What Is A Novel For? We Continue.
On a forgotten memory prompt that came back to me twice.
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What Is A Novel For? Session 1 Q&A Thread
Here is our thread for Session 1 questions. I’ll try and get to them as we go forward. You can also use this as a way to meet other writers and …
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Alexander Chee here, back with a new class: What Is A Novel For?
Is your idea a novel, interconnected stories, a memoir, a memoir in essays? A screenplay? A new class takes one idea through an adventure in forms.
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Alexander Chee and A Couple of People I Used To Be
On reaching for our rejected selves with the essay
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Using the materials of your life in fiction and nonfiction
Welcome to The Querent, by Alexander Chee. I am most recently the author of the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. It wasn’t a how…
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Using the material of your life in fiction and nonfiction

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