Alexander Chee Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Alexander Chee

@andrewjskerritt Brian Broome, Punch Me Up To The Gods; Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile; Hafizah Augustus Geter, The Black Period; Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe; Unfollow Me, Jill Louise Busby.

Alexander Chee

Loved this moment of the novel and in David Leavitt’s review of Andrew Holleran’s The Kingdom of Sand. Ht @GarthGreenwell https://books.substack.com/p/review-david-leavitt-on-andrew-holleran?s=w https://t.co/dq7DteCC7l

Alexander Chee

Reading @maudnewton’s Ancestor Trouble is like following a lit fuse through the dark. I hope you’ll all read it. https://twitter.com/maudnewton/status/1473313575519375365

Alexander Chee

In 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

Alexander Chee

@andrewjskerritt Brian Broome, Punch Me Up To The Gods; Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile; Hafizah Augustus Geter, The Black Period; Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe; Unfollow Me, Jill Louise Busby.

Alexander Chee

@PBW_Poet Off the top of my head: Chris Adrian's The Children's Hospital; Villette, by Charlotte Brontë; Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance. I'm sure there's others.

Alexander Chee

I made this prompt after writing about Denis Johnson and the writing of Jesus’ Son for Playboy, not currently online. He had a rule that he would never write the stories he told friends, and then one day when he was broke and sick, he thought: “That’s a dumb rule.” And broke it. https://t.co/TTNM3jDKoy

Alexander Chee

@andrewjskerritt Brian Broome, Punch Me Up To The Gods; Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile; Hafizah Augustus Geter, The Black Period; Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe; Unfollow Me, Jill Louise Busby.

Alexander Chee

@andrewjskerritt Brian Broome, Punch Me Up To The Gods; Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile; Hafizah Augustus Geter, The Black Period; Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe; Unfollow Me, Jill Louise Busby.

Alexander Chee

@katalves18c A really teachable pairing for such a class would be America Is In The Heart by Carlos Bulosan, and Elaine Castillo’s America Is Not The Heart.