Overview

Full Product Details

9781982597023

Table of Contents

Reviews

A searing examination of the costs of writing. -- Vox Alexander Chee explores the realm of the real with extraordinarily beautiful essays. Being real here is an ambition, a haunting, an impossibility, and an illusion. What passes for real, his essays suggest, becomes real, just as life becomes art, and art, pursued this fully, becomes a life. -- Eula Biss, author of On Immunity Alexander Chee is one of our most important writers and we should listen to every damn thing he has to say. -- Jami Attenberg, author of All Grown Up Chee's marvel of a collection opens with the sting of clarity...The sixteen essays that knit together his profound and resonant collection are a nimble study in radical self-invention...The revelations that follow crackle with the same glowing, essential truths. -- Wired Chee's writing has a mesmerizing quality; his sentences are rife with profound truths without lapsing into the didactic. -- NPR His essays are an invitation not to review the rules of writing but to trace a unique pathway into knowledge and being in and through writing. -- Los Angeles Review of Books An absolute gift of a book for writers everywhere. Every single essay is a pearl. -- Chicago Review of Books Every essay, no matter the subject, exhibits warmth, rigor, tact...The mask conceals and it reveals; writing transfigures and it uncovers. That's the gift that writing has given Chee, and it's the gift that his wonderful new collection gives its readers. -- Boston Globe Chee remains introspective and self-reflective without arrogance...Chee is able to write about himself and, by extension, about all of us. -- Esquire He beckons readers to experience his private moments with such clarity and honesty that we're immediately brought into his consciousness. At the same time, he asks us to contemplate the largest questions about identity, sexuality, family, art and war. -- Washington Post Chee's insights about writing, love, and activism are hard won, honest, and incredibly wise. -- Guardian (London) Chee has written a moving and personal tribute to impermanence, a wise and transgressive meditation on a life lived both because of and in spite of America, a place where, he writes, you are allowed to speak the truth as long as nothing changes. -- New York Times Book Review Meditates on how art shapes who we are, unpacking its author's own coming-of-age as a gay Korean man to craft persuasive, engrossing arguments. -- Entertainment Weekly A knowing and luminous self-portrait. -- O, The Oprah Magazine

Alexander Chee explores the realm of the real with extraordinarily beautiful essays. Being real here is an ambition, a haunting, an impossibility, and an illusion. What passes for real, his essays suggest, becomes real, just as life becomes art, and art, pursued this fully, becomes a life. -- Eula Biss, author of On Immunity A searing examination of the costs of writing. -- Vox Alexander Chee is one of our most important writers and we should listen to every damn thing he has to say. -- Jami Attenberg, author of All Grown Up His essays are an invitation not to review the rules of writing but to trace a unique pathway into knowledge and being in and through writing. -- Los Angeles Review of Books Every essay, no matter the subject, exhibits warmth, rigor, tact...The mask conceals and it reveals; writing transfigures and it uncovers. That's the gift that writing has given Chee, and it's the gift that his wonderful new collection gives its readers. -- Boston Globe A knowing and luminous self-portrait. -- O, The Oprah Magazine Chee's marvel of a collection opens with the sting of clarity...The sixteen essays that knit together his profound and resonant collection are a nimble study in radical self-invention...The revelations that follow crackle with the same glowing, essential truths. -- Wired Chee's writing has a mesmerizing quality; his sentences are rife with profound truths without lapsing into the didactic. -- NPR An absolute gift of a book for writers everywhere. Every single essay is a pearl. -- Chicago Review of Books Chee remains introspective and self-reflective without arrogance...Chee is able to write about himself and, by extension, about all of us. -- Esquire He beckons readers to experience his private moments with such clarity and honesty that we're immediately brought into his consciousness. At the same time, he asks us to contemplate the largest questions about identity, sexuality, family, art and war. -- Washington Post Chee's insights about writing, love, and activism are hard won, honest, and incredibly wise. -- Guardian (London) Chee has written a moving and personal tribute to impermanence, a wise and transgressive meditation on a life lived both because of and in spite of America, a place where, he writes, you are allowed to speak the truth as long as nothing changes. -- New York Times Book Review Meditates on how art shapes who we are, unpacking its author's own coming-of-age as a gay Korean man to craft persuasive, engrossing arguments. -- Entertainment Weekly

A searing examination of the costs of writing. -- ""Vox"" Alexander Chee explores the realm of the real with extraordinarily beautiful essays. Being real here is an ambition, a haunting, an impossibility, and an illusion. What passes for real, his essays suggest, becomes real, just as life becomes art, and art, pursued this fully, becomes a life. -- ""Eula Biss, author of On Immunity"" Alexander Chee is one of our most important writers and we should listen to every damn thing he has to say. -- ""Jami Attenberg, author of All Grown Up"" A knowing and luminous self-portrait. -- ""O, The Oprah Magazine"" An absolute gift of a book for writers everywhere. Every single essay is a pearl. -- ""Chicago Review of Books"" Chee has written a moving and personal tribute to impermanence, a wise and transgressive meditation on a life lived both because of and in spite of America, a place where, he writes, you are allowed to speak the truth as long as nothing changes. -- ""New York Times Book Review"" Chee remains introspective and self-reflective without arrogance...Chee is able to write about himself and, by extension, about all of us. -- ""Esquire"" Chee's insights about writing, love, and activism are hard won, honest, and incredibly wise. -- ""Guardian (London)"" Chee's marvel of a collection opens with the sting of clarity...The sixteen essays that knit together his profound and resonant collection are a nimble study in radical self-invention...The revelations that follow crackle with the same glowing, essential truths. -- ""Wired"" Chee's writing has a mesmerizing quality; his sentences are rife with profound truths without lapsing into the didactic. -- ""NPR"" Every essay, no matter the subject, exhibits warmth, rigor, tact...The mask conceals and it reveals; writing transfigures and it uncovers. That's the gift that writing has given Chee, and it's the gift that his wonderful new collection gives its readers. -- "" Boston Globe"" He beckons readers to experience his private moments with such clarity and honesty that we're immediately brought into his consciousness. At the same time, he asks us to contemplate the largest questions about identity, sexuality, family, art and war. -- ""Washington Post"" His essays are an invitation not to review the rules of writing but to trace a unique pathway into knowledge and being in and through writing. -- ""Los Angeles Review of Books"" Meditates on how art shapes who we are, unpacking its author's own coming-of-age as a gay Korean man to craft persuasive, engrossing arguments. -- ""Entertainment Weekly""

A knowing and luminous self-portrait. -- O, The Oprah Magazine Meditates on how art shapes who we are, unpacking its author's own coming-of-age as a gay Korean man to craft persuasive, engrossing arguments. -- Entertainment Weekly Chee's insights about writing, love, and activism are hard won, honest, and incredibly wise. -- Guardian (London) He beckons readers to experience his private moments with such clarity and honesty that we're immediately brought into his consciousness. At the same time, he asks us to contemplate the largest questions about identity, sexuality, family, art and war. -- Washington Post Chee remains introspective and self-reflective without arrogance...Chee is able to write about himself and, by extension, about all of us. -- Esquire Every essay, no matter the subject, exhibits warmth, rigor, tact...The mask conceals and it reveals; writing transfigures and it uncovers. That's the gift that writing has given Chee, and it's the gift that his wonderful new collection gives its readers. -- Boston Globe An absolute gift of a book for writers everywhere. Every single essay is a pearl. -- Chicago Review of Books His essays are an invitation not to review the rules of writing but to trace a unique pathway into knowledge and being in and through writing. -- Los Angeles Review of Books Chee's writing has a mesmerizing quality; his sentences are rife with profound truths without lapsing into the didactic. -- NPR Chee has written a moving and personal tribute to impermanence, a wise and transgressive meditation on a life lived both because of and in spite of America, a place where, he writes, you are allowed to speak the truth as long as nothing changes. -- New York Times Book Review Chee's marvel of a collection opens with the sting of clarity...The sixteen essays that knit together his profound and resonant collection are a nimble study in radical self-invention...The revelations that follow crackle with the same glowing, essential truths. -- Wired Alexander Chee is one of our most important writers and we should listen to every damn thing he has to say. -- Jami Attenberg, author of All Grown Up Alexander Chee explores the realm of the real with extraordinarily beautiful essays. Being real here is an ambition, a haunting, an impossibility, and an illusion. What passes for real, his essays suggest, becomes real, just as life becomes art, and art, pursued this fully, becomes a life. -- Eula Biss, author of On Immunity A searing examination of the costs of writing. -- Vox

Author Information

Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, an editor-at-large at the Virginia Quarterly Review, and a critic-at-large at the Los Angeles Times. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, the New York Times Magazine, Slate, Guernica, and Tin House, among others. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available