Alexander Chee
"Sounds like my kind of tragedy"

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40 years old
AMHERST, Massachusetts
United States



Last Login: 5/16/2008
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MusicDaniel Cartier, Scissor Sisters, Of Montreal, Peaches, Raised by Swans, Snow Patrol, Justin, old house music. Ninja High School. Other stuff. I like it if I can dance to it, write to it or cook to it. I just noticed the other day, though, that my top-rated iPod list and my most-played list...are a little different from each other. Which means I may not even be able to tell myself what music I like.
MoviesAngel At My Table, 5X2, Junebug, Me, You and Everyone We Know, Bladerunner, Heathers, Charade, Taxi Zum Klo, Friends With Money, Akira, Howl's Moving Castle, Jesus Is Magic, In The Mood For Love, Lost In Translation, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. And Pussycat, Kill, Kill.
TelevisionEntourage, Footballer's Wives, Lost, Ugly Betty, Survivor, and Battlestar Galactica, the old one and the new one. When I fly Jetblue, I can't stop watching Cash in the Attic on the BBC America, and I work on my crush on Alistair Appleton.
BooksA few: Joan of Arc, by Vita Sackville-West, The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson, Black Tickets, by Jayne Anne Phillips, Close to the Knives, by David Wojnarowicz, Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin, Autobiography of Red, by Anne Carson, The Carnivore's Inquiry, by Sabina Murray, Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami, the entire bodies of work of Joan Didion, Deborah Eisenberg, Marilynne Robinson, Mary Robison, Annie Dillard, Marina Tsvetaeva, the poems of Denis Johnson, My Alexandria by Mark Doty, Cape of Storms and the Tattered Cloak, by Nina Berberova, Paul Lisicky's Famous Builder, Chris Adrian's The Children's Hospital, the stories of Miranda July and Yiyun Li, the stories of Richard Bausch, all of the manga by Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf and Cub, Crying Freeman, Strain, Path of the Assassin, Lady Snowblood and others), and Scott Pilgrim, Volumes I-III, by Brian Lee O'Malley. Among some others.
HeroesJoan Didion, Joy Williams, Larry Kramer, David Wojnarowicz, Alan Hollinghurst, Theresa Hak Yung Cha.

     Alexander Chee's Details
Status:Single
Orientation:Gay
Hometown:Cape Elizabeth, ME
Zodiac Sign:Leo
Children:Someday
Education:Post grad
Occupation:Writer

   Alexander Chee's Schools
University Of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: MFA in Fiction
 

1992 to 1994
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
Graduated: 1989
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: English
 

1985 to 1989

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powered by frazy.com Edmund White : "Alexander Chee is the best new novelist I've seen in some time. Edinburgh is moody, dramatic---and pure."

Annie Dillard: "Edinburgh has the force of a dream and the heft of a life. And Alexander Chee is a brilliant new writer."

The New York Times Sunday Book Review:"Haunting... complex... sophisticated. [Chee] says volumes with just a few incendiary words."

The Washington Post: "A coming-of-age novel in the grand Romantic tradition, where passions run high, Cupid stalks Psyche, and love shares the dance floor with death . . . A lovely, nuanced, never predictable portrait of a creative soul in the throes of becoming."

Publishers Weekly: "Chee is a gifted, poetic writer who takes big risks...This novel marks the debut of a major talent whose career will bear watching."

Kirkus Reviews:"A striking debut...A complex story told with skill and intensity, but also filled with moments when agony and extraordinary beauty somehow coexist."

Joyce Hackett, in the Guardian UK: "A complex, sophisticated, elegant investigation of trauma and desire - like a white hot flame."

Alexander Chee is the author of Edinburgh (Picador, 2002), winner of the Michener/Copernicus Prize, the Asian American Writers' Workshop Literary Award, and the Lambda Editor's Choice Prize, named a Best Book of the Year by Publisher's Weekly. He's a recipient of the Whiting Writer's Award, an NEA Fellowship in Fiction, and a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony. His stories and essays have appeared in the anthologies Best American Erotica 2007, Best Gay Erotica 2006, A Fictional History of the US (With Huge Chunks Missing), From Boys To Men, Loss Within Loss, Boys Like Us, and Take/Out. He lives in Massachusetts.

Check him out on the web at http://truenorth.typepad.com

Who I'd like to meet:
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Ray Robinson





May 16 2008 11:19 AM

Long time no hear. How's it hanging, dude? Straight up? I left Arsebook because it was taking over my life. Praise be arsespace.
Rx
{[vindico nos ex malum]}





May 12 2008 4:58 PM

thank you ^_^ and thank you for writing that book. It was wonderful. This is the poem, if you are curious.

Fire

into the fire, we run blindly-
Let's burn together as one.
our ashes will blow away with the
breeze.
no regret, we are one, no fear.
burn, burning, apart, together, fuse, hold, reach, scream, die.
fire
stars
sky
moon
death
life
love
pain
joy
alone, together, as one, as nothing, burning.

Let's watch the grass grow after the
cold rain.
T Cooper





May 12 2008 10:10 AM

Where did your photo go? It's distressing me.
ashley.





May 10 2008 10:50 PM

this is probably just another silly fan comment, but.........i just finished reading 'edinburgh' again. i've read it around 5-7 times and every time i read it, it inspires me again. such an amazing book. thank you so much for your writing.
{[vindico nos ex malum]}





May 9 2008 4:34 PM

although this seems...irrelevant, I thought I should let you know...
I wrote a poem inspired by Eidenburgh for a creative writing assignment, and it was chosen to be published in my school's newspaper.
Thanks for the inspiration. It will be the first thing I will have published publicly...even if it's just a high school paper >.
>
Brian Sloan





May 1 2008 7:16 PM

Hi Alex--sorry I missed you earlier...I was just going into writing-time hibernation this afternoon. Hope to see u in NYC sometime soon--later!

B
KENNY





Apr 29 2008 9:05 AM

hi thanks a lot for your request :) next roman cool events:
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stephen





Apr 12 2008 8:38 PM

that sounds great. but i dont know how much longer i'll be in sf. i'll let u know where i end up.
Susan





Mar 15 2008 12:54 PM

Starting right this second. You are on!

xo
Susan





Mar 15 2008 11:23 AM

Ha! Your song cracks me up.
Jordan Buckelew





Mar 14 2008 11:34 AM

All I've heard is positive as well. I'm looking for ward to it.
Peter





Mar 1 2008 8:17 AM

{[vindico nos ex malum]}





Feb 28 2008 8:14 PM

Hi! and no problem! It's not a very difficult thing to do ^_^
Amelia





Feb 28 2008 6:07 PM

i remember having a signed copy of edinburgh that i forgot in ny when i moved back to chile...it was tragic...but now you are my myspcae friend! cheers alex!
Perry (P. J.) Studevent





Feb 28 2008 7:49 AM

have a great day Alex!
Peter





Feb 26 2008 7:53 AM

i just google image searched "evil clown hair" and now i'm going to have nightmares.
Peter





Feb 26 2008 7:42 AM

Epstein Barbie





Feb 14 2008 4:30 PM

XoXo Dr.

How's the redecorating going?
GT a.k.a. Gengoroh Tagame





Feb 9 2008 12:43 PM

thiago





Feb 5 2008 1:41 AM