Chee’s writing precise and lovely.

Just turned in an essay on Prince. Be out sometime next year. It contains this line: Thanks to my background—raised by truckers, loggers, and small-patch farmers—I still struggle to get…View post

Recorded a phone call with Leesa Cross-Smith this morning for this year’s Eaux Claires festival. The little snippet below didn’t get used, but I’m sharing it because the intersection of…View post

Writing tic: Forever having things “begin” or “began.” Just have’em HAPPEN, Sparky! I’d have a whole ‘nother book wrote by now if I had back all the time spent deleting…View post

Some of my books have sold beyond what I dared hope. Some far fewer. In the last 48 hours I received heartfelt, intense, uplifting notes of gratitude from readers of…View post