You might think that your voice as a writer would emerge na… - Alexander Chee

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You might think that your voice as a writer would emerge naturally, all on its own, with no help whatsoever, but you’d be wrong. What I saw on the page was that the voice is in fact trapped, nervous, lazy. Even, and in my case most especially, amnesiac. And that it has to be cut free.

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

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