Alexander Chee is the author of the novel Edinburgh, a winner of the Asian American Writers' Workshop Lit Award, the Lambda Literary Awards' Editor's Choice Prize, and the Michener/Copernicus Prize.
Anne Carson, Jeanette Winterson, Deborah Eisenberg.
Favorite Books
Autobiography of Red, by Anne Carson; Close to the Knives, by David Wojnarowicz; No One Belongs Here More Than You, by Miranda July; The Children's Hospital, by Chris Adrian; Anna Karenina, by Count Leo Tolstoy; My Sister's Hand In Mine, by Jane Bowles; Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys; Dictee, by Theresa Hak Yung Cha; Joan Of Arc, by Vita Sackville-West; Black Tickets, by Jayne Anne Phillips; Ronin, by Frank Miller; Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin; The Complete Works of Billy The Kid, by Michael Ondaatje; The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson; Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion; The Silent Woman, by Janet Malcolm; everything by Guy Davenport; the entire Pliocene Epoch tetrology by Julian May; the complete body of work by Los Bros Hernandez (Love and Rockets); Vols. 1-28 of Lone Wolf and Cub, Scott Pilgrim 1-4 thus far; Paul Hornschmeier's Mother Come Home; Klezmer, the Little Vampire and The Rabbi's Cat, by Joann Sfar.
Favorite Authors
Anne Carson, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Bausch, Sigrid Nunez, Joan Didion, Margaret Atwood, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, James Baldwin, Ursula K. LeGuin, Los Bros. Hernandez.
