"There’s some way of thinking about how the body can be articulate that translates into how you tell stories on the page. I don’t know if it goes the other way. I’d love it if it did. The body is the instrument for the essayist in particular. It’s the instrument by which the events are recorded; it’s the instrument on which the events are replayed. It’s a very complicated, interdimensional relationship we have with our bodies when we’re nonfiction writers."
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On how being in tuned with the body can inform the writing processin “Which Story Will You Tell? A Q&A With Alexander Chee” in Poets & Writers (2018 Apr 17)
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