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I remembered staffing a volunteer table for ACT UP in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood in 1991, on the corner of Castro and 18th Street, and on my table were posters, stickers, and t-shirts that bore the same slogan in all caps - ACT UP slogan house style. I wore one of those shirts to model for passers-by.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Act Bore Caps Castro Corner Francisco House Model Neighborhood Posters Remembered Same San Shirts Slogan Staffing Street Style Table Those Up Volunteer Were Wore T-Shirts

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The day in 2011 that I went to the office of the city clerk in lower Manhattan with my partner Dustin to register for our domestic partnership was coincidentally also the first day same-sex partners were allowed to register for marriage in the state of New York.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Allowed Also City Clerk Day Domestic First Lower Manhattan Marriage New New York Office Our Partner Partners Partnership Register Same-Sex State Were York

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Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Describe Failed Felt Fiction Had He His Historical Historical Fiction Internal Literature Match Meant Own Peace Period Sense Tolstoy Truth Veteran War Wars Wrote

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'War and Peace' holds a strange place in literary history, participating in the crowning of realism as a substantial and serious literary mode in America, even as the novel also contributed to the argument that historical fiction could be by nature dangerous, illegitimate, and inaccurate.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Also America Argument Could Crowning Dangerous Even Fiction Historical Historical Fiction History Holds Illegitimate Inaccurate Literary Mode Nature Novel Participating Peace Place Realism Serious Strange Substantial War

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By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read 'War and Peace.'

~Alexander Chee

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In the summer of 1866, as Leo Tolstoy prepared for his serialized novel 'War and Peace' to be published as a single volume, he wrote to illustrator Mikhail Bashilov, hoping to commission drawings for the new edition of the novel, which he referred to by its original title,1805.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Commission Drawings Edition He His Hoping Illustrator Leo New Novel Original Peace Prepared Published Referred Single Summer Tolstoy Volume War Which Wrote

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I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.

~Alexander Chee

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In 2009, the 'New York Times' ran an analysis on the cost of being a LGBT couple trying to live as a married couple but without the same protections. Over a lifetime, they estimated a couple would spend as much as $467,562 more, and as little as $41,196, with costs running lower the higher your income.

~Alexander Chee

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When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: College Could Discovered First Friends Left Maine Met Really Rich State Summer Verb

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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