Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the author Alexander Chee agreed to select "American fiction" for a subscription service called Boxwalla, starting with two ...

Two-thirds of the way through Alexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, I abandoned my sharpened reviewer's pencil in favor of luxuriating in the words. Chee's writing has a mesmerizing ...

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Alexander Chee is best known as a novelist, and after the operatic plot of his “Queen of the Night,” readers may be surprised at the quiet intimacy of his first essay collection, “How to Write an ...

Alexander Chee has spent his career writing about the complicated role sex plays in our lives — a source of shame and desire, harm and restoration, disappointment and profundity. And though one might ...

When the author Alexander Chee agreed to select “American fiction” for a subscription service called Boxwalla, starting with two works arriving in mailboxes this month, he understood an essential perk ...

Two-thirds of the way through Alexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, I abandoned my sharpened reviewer's pencil in favor of luxuriating in the words. Chee's writing has a mesmerizing ...

In these reflections, colleagues, friends and admirers recall his risk-taking, his generosity and his insatiable taste for gossip. For Pride Month, we asked people ranging in age from 34 to 93 to ...