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Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee

Aug 31, 2020

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The New Self-Help

When the World Is on Fire, Write

A novel protects what a missile can’t

This story is part of The New Self-Help: 21 Books for a Better You in the 21st Century.

The first weekend of the war in Iraq, I wrote my writing students an email.

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Author of the novels THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT and EDINBURGH, and the essay collection HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL.

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