Alexander Chee
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42 years old
AMHERST, Massachusetts
United States



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GeneralCome find me at http://alexanderchee.net
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:In a Relationship
Here for:Networking
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.
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KEN BOE

Ken Boe



Dec 29 2009 12:41 AM

Las Vegas and Phoenix Art Exhibitions By Ken Boe

       The synchronic vibration between object and metaphor is
the magical dimention of beauty that my artwork seeks out. My idea is that all
objects, be they old containers, art works, art supplies, tree roots,
or concepts themselves, continually vibrate frequencies of meaning in
a continuum of metaphorical…
 

Manifesto continues at
www.kenboe.com - Come visit one of my art shows in January. Follow link
to my blog for more information.

"Synchronic Vessels"
Las Vegas First Friday Art Walk, 01/01/10
8 Martinis Gallery at the Art Factory, 107 East Charleson Blvd,
Downtown Las Vegas, and

"Synchronic Chaos"
Chaos Art Space, 801 N. 6th Street, Downtown Phoenix, beginning night
of 01/01/10

Ray Robinson

Ray Robinson



Nov 14 2009 7:43 AM

Give us a kiss sexy boy xxxx
KEN BOE

Ken Boe



Nov 5 2009 4:57 PM

                                            I am an artist..

 

 

 

 

 

.... I am a poet who paints

Celticagent

Adam Sweet



Aug 7 2009 3:34 PM

If you have a band and would like to work in western central Massachusetts, I may be able to help book you. I started NC Booking back in '89 when I was booking a few bands from Scotland and Ireland. Now, 20 years later, I'm still booking great roots music acts. To find out more, visit http://northamptoncommunity.ning.com where you can REGISTER. Thanks!
Saknussemm

Kris Saknussemm



Mar 3 2009 4:50 PM



PRIVATE MIDNIGHT HITS THE SHELVES IN TWO DAYS!

"James Ellroy meets David Lynch in this addictive mix of noir and supernatural horror."
-Publishers Weekly

Josh Aterovis

Josh Aterovis



Dec 20 2008 11:25 PM

MARC ACITO

MARC ACITO



Aug 25 2008 3:45 PM

Aw, blushing. So is yours.
MARC ACITO

MARC ACITO



Aug 22 2008 11:04 PM

I'll be participating in Workstock. I don't have an exact time or date yet but look for me in the program.
Just another profile

Just another profile



Aug 22 2008 1:36 PM

xoxj
Peter

Peter



Aug 21 2008 5:02 PM

Lance Reynald

lance reynald



Aug 21 2008 4:35 PM

Happy Birthday Mr. Chee!!!

xo.
MARC ACITO

MARC ACITO



Aug 21 2008 3:26 PM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOT STUFF. Do something outrageous to celebrate.
Josh Aterovis

Josh Aterovis



Aug 20 2008 2:18 PM

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Josh
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Jhohadli

Jhohadli



Aug 19 2008 10:31 PM

I think that's a great idea. And you don't have to tell me twice; I'm having an amazing time.
Ray Robinson

Ray Robinson



Aug 13 2008 3:11 PM

My new book is out in the UK.
Hurrah! How's it hanging your end? Straight up? I'm in Noo Yoik at the end of November - be good to hook up if you're around? R x
Lance Reynald

lance reynald



Jun 5 2008 4:51 AM

um...

when are we heading into the desert for this martini induced vision quest?

I'll consult the greyhound schedules when needed, as the hound seems the best way to set forth on such an adventure... I know no one with a VW bus anymore.

xo.L.
Ray Robinson

Ray Robinson



May 17 2008 9:59 AM

Cook, get drunk and run around the woods naked? Sounds grand. Book two is out in exactly 2 months - not that I am counting.
How's yours coming along? Rx
Ray Robinson

Ray Robinson



May 16 2008 6:19 PM

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
~{Le Petit Auteur Qui Pourrait}~

~{Le Petit Auteur Qui Pourrait}~



May 12 2008 11:58 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

T Cooper



May 12 2008 5:10 PM

Where did your photo go? It's distressing me.
~{Le Petit Auteur Qui Pourrait}~

~{Le Petit Auteur Qui Pourrait}~



May 9 2008 11:34 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

Brian Sloan



May 2 2008 2:16 AM

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

KENNY McCORMICK



Apr 29 2008 4:05 PM

hi thanks a lot for your request :) next roman cool events:
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let me know when you are here!
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stephen

stephen



Apr 13 2008 3:38 AM

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

Susan



Mar 15 2008 7:54 PM

Starting right this second. You are on!

xo
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