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.

The idea for the new class is this: We will walk a story idea through a variety of formal possibilities. The two sessions, a month apart, will be available for a limited time by recording if the class time is out of sync with your schedule or time zone—each will be up for a month afterward on a password protected site. Closed captioning and ASL interpre…