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TwistedSifter pretty remarkable to see
Incredible Timelapse Captures Cell Division in a Tadpole Egg
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An unbelievable macro timelapse by Francis Chee Films. Elapsed time: 33 hours
108 months ago
Los Angeles Times Books Jonathan Lethem's new novel, "A Gambler's Anatomy," is reviewed by Alexander Chee, one of our Critics at Large
Alexander Chee on Jonathan Lethem's 'A Gambler's Anatomy': 'Oceans 11' meets 'Escape to Witch Mounta
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I read the jacket copy for the new Jonathan Lethem novel a little surprised, a little uncertain — it sounded like “Escape to Witch Mountain” crossed with “Ocean’s Eleven”: A professional international backgammon player with telepathic pow Read more ... ers has a concerning blot on his face that is distracting him…
113 months ago
The New York Times - Travel Alexander Chee on Acadia National Park, and the mark it left on him.
Acadia National Park: Maine’s Bright Face
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The novelist Alexander Chee on the national park he grew up with — and then returned to.
117 months ago
Joseph Wong AIA agency manager, Cheah Chee Keong 670911-08-5045 works with other AIA insurance agents to cheat AIA policyholders' money for gambling online MIG forex, oil and gold 2011-2016, if anyone of the readers is also one of the victims,please report polic Read more ... e
118 months ago
The New Yorker “The Queen of the Night” indulges in music and mystery.
Alexander Chee’s Operatic Novel
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“The Queen of the Night” summons the outsized passions of nineteenth-century Paris, with an edge of psychological perversity.
121 months ago
Ellen Akins, Author What are my chances of encountering descriptions of the douching practices of 19th-century whores in two novels within five hours? Assuming it's not my so-called area of study. And yet, listening to a recorded book, as I do with lighter fare, of Mich Read more ... el Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White, then continuing my reading of Alexander Chee's "The Queen of the Night" for this review in Los Angeles Times Books, I did just that. (Per Faber, a corrosive concentrate of zinc sulphate, a sort of Russian roulette form of birth control.)
Whores in the 1800s no doubt did douche. And getting the details down confers a degree of verisimilitude upon an account of the oldest profession in its Victorian incarnation, or at least upon the author exacting enough to ferret out the more fastidious facts of 19th-century life (The relationship of "fact" to "factitious" comes to mind.). What this (verisimilitude, not douching) has to do with the problem of time-traveling consciousness in historical fiction is something I've been thinking about (even more now that I'm in the middle of Danielle Dutton's "Margaret the First"), as has Chee, of course, out loud & everywhere, though most pertinently here, in the New Republic: http://tinyurl.com/zpm76hm. More to come (she said, ominously).
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Alexander Chee's 'The Queen of the Night' is an operatic novel of opera
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"When it began, it began as an opera would begin," it begins, and it goes on like one too — a novel vaguely modeled on "The Magic Flute," pressed through the mold of the 18th-century picaresque, with a hint of the charm of Victorian erotica, a Read more ... marvelously involute plot…
121 months ago
Slate.com The long, rocky 15 years between Alexander Chee’s first novel and his second.
Why Alexander Chee Pulled His Novel Back Just Months Before Publication
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Alexander Chee’s lyrical, disturbing first novel Edinburgh was quietly published in 2001 by an independent press. The novel drew praise, was re-release ...
122 months ago
Slate.com Alexander Chee’s historical novel The Queen of the Night, reviewed.
Who Has Betrayed the Great Soprano of Belle Époque Paris?
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At first glance, Alexander Chee’s novel The Queen of the Night seems a world away from his 2001 debut, Edinburgh. Edinburgh tells the story of its prot ...
122 months ago
NPR "Fiction is a complicated game, right — of telling a lie that tells the truth."
Alexander Chee's Voice Shines Through In 'Queen Of The Night'
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The long-awaited novel follows a famous opera singer on her journey of constant reinvention. Despite the 19th century France setting, Chee admits there are autobiographical elements.
122 months ago
The WorldPost Critical times in Europe.
Greek PM Tsipras Lays Out His Case As The Clock Ticks On An EU Bailout
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By Alastair Macdonald and Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Greece's radical new prime minister Alexis Tsipras was in Brussels on Thursda...
134 months ago