I wanted to lead my students to another world, one where pe… - Alexander Chee

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I wanted to lead my students to another world, one where people value writing and art more than war, and yet I knew and I know that the only thing that matters is to make that world here. There is no other world. This is the only world we are in. This revisable country, so difficult to change, to easily changed.

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Alexander Chee (born August 21, 1967) is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.

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