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One of the things that's really important in 'Queen of the Night' is how people communicate with their clothes.

~Alexander Chee

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I knew I wanted the parties in 'The Queen of the Night' to be convincing, beautiful, and also dramatic: situations where significant things happened on a scale that was both grand and intimate. There were several texts that helped me think about how to do this, and one of the most important ones was Charlotte Bronte's novel 'Villette.'

~Alexander Chee

Topics: About Also Beautiful Both Charlotte Convincing Dramatic Grand Happened Helped How Important Intimate Knew Me Most Night Novel Parties Queen Scale Several Significant Situations Texts The Most Important Things Think Wanted Were Where

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When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Acceptable Average Behavior Did Farther Fiction Find Fun Historical Historical Fiction Interactions Little People Situation Social Think Unhappy Were Why Writing You

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Marie Cornelie Falcon, who lost her voice while performing - singing the line 'Je suis pret' - 'I am ready.' How much more tragic can you get?

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Am Falcon Get Her How How Much Line Lost Marie More Much Performing Ready Singing Tragic Voice While Who You I Am

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In some ways, in 'The Queen of the Night,' I'm writing about some of the experience that I had with 'Edinburgh' where I was entirely unable to speak about what had happened to me as a child, but I could read from the novel.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: About Child Could Edinburgh Entirely Experience Had Happened Me Night Novel Queen Read Some Speak Unable Ways Where Writing

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The best relatively contemporary portrayal of a courtesan that I've ever seen was probably in 'Children of Paradise,' a film that was made during the Nazi occupation of France, made in secret actually.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Actually Best Children Contemporary Ever Film France Made Occupation Paradise Relatively Secret Seen

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Paul Lisicky, in his new memoir, 'The Narrow Door,' describes losing his old friend, the novelist Denise Gess, and his husband, the acclaimed poet and memoirist Mark Doty, within a year of each other: Gess to cancer, at the age of 57, and Doty to another man.

~Alexander Chee

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I met my first boyfriend when we were 13, playing 'Dungeons and Dragons' in the basement of my local comics shop. We were from the same small town in Maine but went to different schools.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Basement Boyfriend Comics Different Dragons Dungeons First Local Maine Met Playing Same Schools Shop Small Small Town Town Were

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As of 2013, according to the World Health Organization, 35 million people were estimated to be living with HIV or AIDS globally, and 39 million have died from the disease. The epidemic of denial won, and now everyone knows there is money in the making of drugs for AIDS.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: According Aids Denial Died Disease Epidemic Estimated Everyone Globally Health Hiv Knows Living Making Million Million People Money Now Organization People Were Won World

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ACT UP was trying to explain to Americans that AIDS could affect all of us: that health care that ended once your disease was expensive could affect more than gay men with HIV or AIDS. We were trying to tell them about the future - a future they didn't yet see and would be forced to accept if they failed to act.

~Alexander Chee

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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