Returning to Your Humanity w. ALEXANDER CHEE

Returning to Your Humanity w. ALEXANDER CHEE

Alexander Chee is a novelist and essayist and an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. 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.

Discussed In This Episode

Accepting you’re human and becoming real to yourself. Making your writing practice feel safe. Accountability. “I was tired of being made to feel decorative.” The point of telling and the extraordinary time of the character. “The reader doesn’t have to know, but they have to be able to feel it.” Finding all the rooms of a story. Keeping a novel journal. Layers of revision.

Bonus Segment: The Moving Desk

Alexander talks about why he loves to write in transit.

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