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

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

@cathyparkhong I teach an excerpt from China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston, for the way it shows her using research and fiction to imagine her way into the silences of the men in her family, as regards to migration.

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.