Alexander Chee Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Alexander Chee is a writer. 2021 @USForArts + @GuggFellows Fellow. Author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Associate Prof of CW @dartmouth. Editor of Best American Essays 2022.
A Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing
David MuraAlexander Chee@melanie__pierce Vivian Gornick’s The Story and the Situation; Craft in the Real World, by Matthew Salesses; The Tin House Writers Notebook vol. 1&2; The Art and Craft of Memoir, ed. by William Zinsser; A Stranger’s Journey, by David Mura; the Anti-Racist Writing Workshop, by Teresa Rose Chavez.
Paperback, 2018
$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
French Provincial Cooking
Elizabeth DavidAlexander Chee@CamhiLeslie I have loved making it since reading the very romantic recipe in Elizabeth David’s French Provincial Cooking. https://t.co/RIJuU9zAKW
Paperback, 1999
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nights at the Circus
Angela CarterAlexander Chee@marinaweiss Rest for a month if you can to avoid triggering long COVID. And for audiobooks listen to My Duck Is Your Duck, by Deborah Eisenberg, Nights At The Circus, by Angela Carter, Maurice, by E. M. Forster.
Paperback, 1986
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Palmares
Gayl JonesAlexander CheeA powerful biographical profile of Gayle Jones, by @imaniperry. "Over the last 23 years, this author who Toni Morrison said changed Black women’s literature forever has been an invisible woman." Jones has given us a new novel this fall, Palmares. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/magazine/gayl-jones-novel-palmares.html
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
Ingrid Rojas ContrerasAlexander CheeThe remarkable @ingrid_rojas_c’s remarkable memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, is a story of amnesia, family legacies and the gift that to some is a curse. Join us for our conversation this Thursday evening online at @ThirdPlaceBooks. https://t.co/r3LEcMQXhQ
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
Randall KenanAlexander CheeIn the mail yesterday: Black Folk Could Fly, a powerful posthumous collection of essays by Randall Kenan, coming this August 9, 2022. With an introduction by Tayari Jones. https://t.co/QozScKD0Uf
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. ButlerAlexander Chee@NyashaJunior Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter; Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg; The Magical Language of Others by EJ Koh; Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.
Paperback, 2019
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Blue Star
Robert FerroAlexander CheeStopped by @stillnorthbooks for Grief and Nights In Aruba by Andrew Holleran; The Blue Star by Robert Ferro; The Haunting of Hajji Hotak, by @JamilJanKochai; Jonny Appleseed by @JWhitehead204, and Love After The End, edited by Whitehead also. https://t.co/q7DIEXx4pb
Paperback, 2020
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni MorrisonAlexander Chee"Of the 512 books published by Random House between 1984 and 1990 in our data, just two were written by Black authors: Ms. Morrison’s “Beloved” (through Knopf, which was owned by Random House) and “Sarah Phillips,” by Andrea Lee." https://t.co/AKNbhaAjgK
Paperback, 2004
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Town of Babylon
Alejandro VarelaAlexander CheeExcited to celebrate Pride on Fire Island with my friend @drovarela and his debut novel, The Town of Babylon, a book I’ve been evangelizing about for months. Come by if you’re there. https://twitter.com/refunfunyadora/status/1538672499239665669
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book