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2021 @USForArts + @GuggFellows Fellow. Author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Prof of CW @dartmouth.
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What Is Freedom: Alexander Chee

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By Alexander Chee
| The Rumpus
• July 13, 2026 I long to one day live in a country with more freedom available to me and everyone I know and don’t know, more than we’ve all ever known. And for that to be this country. But that has felt like the trap of this country, too. The idea that it could ever live up to its ideals, a carrot held over a bear trap. I don’t want to die feeling I wasted my life on that mission, but I’m old enough now that it’s on my mind. And yet I don’t know where else I’d go.
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On being ruthless with revision

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By Sarah Wang, Alexander Chee
| The Creative Independent
On being ruthless with revision Author Sarah Wang on getting feedback from editors, sustaining momentum on a years-long project, and making yourself laugh June 11, 2026 - As told to Bronwen Lam, 2400 words. Tags: Writing, Beginnings, Adversity, Collaboration, Process, Production.
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On Lio Min’s Beating Heart Baby as “Portable Fortress of Dreams”

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By Alexander Chee
| EIN News
Alexander Chee Considers the 2022 YA Romance Lio Min’s 2022 novel, Beating Heart Baby, begins with a charming queer Filipino high school senior trumpet player named Santi being driven to his new high school by his beloved guardian, Aya, taking in the sight of “the city of a thousand cities,” as he calls it—as beautiful an evocation of Los Angeles as any I’ve ever heard.
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