Alexander Chee and A Couple of People I Used To Be

On reaching for our rejected selves with the essay

If you are opening this message, wondering why you received it, well, I am Alexander Chee, and it may be you signed up for this newsletter back when it was my author TinyLetter. In late 2019, or 2020, I migrated the email list there over to this space in the early days of Substack. And some of you found me here in the summer of 2020 after my Shipman Ag…