Daniel 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.
Movies
Angel 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.
Television
Entourage, 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.
Books
A 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.
Heroes
Joan 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
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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.
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
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!
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
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.
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
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.
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 >. >
