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.
![Book Cover for: Quietly Hostile: Essays, Samantha Irby](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780593315699.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709849636)
Quietly Hostile: Essays
Samantha Irby![Alexander Chee](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars/twt_15245653.jpeg)
@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.
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Kingdom of Sand, Andrew Holleran](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781250869036.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709847471)
The Kingdom of Sand
Andrew Holleran![Alexander Chee](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars/twt_15245653.jpeg)
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
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation, Maud Newton](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780812987492.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1722037792)
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
Maud Newton![Alexander Chee](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars/twt_15245653.jpeg)
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
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan, Randall Kenan](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781324064596.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709850295)
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
Randall Kenan![Alexander Chee](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars/twt_15245653.jpeg)
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
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin, Hafizah Augustus Geter](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780593448663.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709850343)
The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin
Hafizah Augustus Geter![Alexander Chee](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars/twt_15245653.jpeg)
@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.
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories, Denis Johnson](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780812988635.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709849381)
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories
Denis Johnson![Alexander Chee](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars/twt_15245653.jpeg)
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
Hardcover, 2018
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir, Brian Broome](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780358695257.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709842169)
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir
Brian Broome![Alexander Chee](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars/twt_15245653.jpeg)
@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.
Paperback, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: China Men: National Book Award Winner, Maxine Hong Kingston](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780679723288.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709847247)
China Men: National Book Award Winner
Maxine Hong Kingston![Alexander Chee](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars/twt_15245653.jpeg)
@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.
Paperback, 1989
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity, Jill Louise Busby](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781635577112.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1722037792)
Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity
Jill Louise Busby![Alexander Chee](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars/twt_15245653.jpeg)
@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.
Hardcover, 2021
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: America Is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780735222427.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1710752086)
America Is Not the Heart
Elaine Castillo![Alexander Chee](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars/twt_15245653.jpeg)
@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.
Paperback, 2019
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book