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As a young writer, I questioned the idea that I had to write fiction in a world where I could write my own ethnicity only and nothing else. 'Fach' to me was a little like that. As a biracial person, that's an inherently unstable identity.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Could Else Ethnicity Fiction Had Idea Identity Inherently Like Little Me My Own Nothing Only Own Person Questioned Unstable Where World Write Writer Young

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At first, teaching was more or less a straightforward way of making a living and having access to institutional resources while writing - aka libraries. And that was not inconsiderable. But it didn't in any way touch the writing. Maybe it would push the writing aside sometimes, but mostly it was fine.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Access Any Aside Fine First Having Institutional Less Libraries Living Making Making A Living Maybe More More Or Less Mostly Push Resources Sometimes Straightforward Teaching Touch Way While Would Writing

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I've known the poet Eileen Myles since the 1990s, when I first moved to New York, and I remember seeing her walking her Pit Bull Rosie around the East Village. She had these beautiful arms and David Cassidy hair and the sort of swagger so many of the gay boys I knew wished we had. We all had crushes on her.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Arms Around Beautiful Boy Bull Crushes David East First Gay Had Hair Her Knew Known Many Moved New New York Pit Poet Remember Seeing She Since Sort Swagger Village Walking Wished York I Remember 1990S

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Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Introduced Iowa James Liz Me Mine Person Teacher Who Work

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The Narrator of 'A Sport and a Pastime' is an American photographer living in a borrowed house in what he calls 'the real France,' Autun, a small town where he hopes to take some career-changing photographs in the spirit of Atget.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: American Borrowed Calls France He Hopes House Living Narrator Pastime Photographer Photographs Real Small Small Town Some Spirit Sport Take Town Where

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I'm not much of a Rick Moody fan, but I want to be a fan for the Rick Moody I thought might appear after his first two novels, 'Garden State' (1992) and 'The Ice Storm' (1994).

~Alexander Chee

Topics: After Appear Fan First Garden His Ice Might Moody Much Novels Rick State Storm Thought Two Want

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It is expensive to live in hotels, even cheap ones - more expensive than renting.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Cheap Even Expensive Hotels Live More Than

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I said that I like to write on trains and that I wished Amtrak had residencies for writers.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Had Like Said Trains Wished Write Writers

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My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Acceptance Amherst Came Edgar Fellowship First John Letter Note Offer

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My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, Sarah Schulman, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Christa Wolf - and much of this writing was political as well as literary.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Anne Heroes Joan Jordan Joy June Literary Mostly Much Political Sarah Thinkers Well Were Williams Wolf Women Women Writers Writers Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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