Comments on: Reynald’s Rap: Lance Reynald chats with Alexander Chee http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/ where writers come to play Sat, 17 May 2008 00:51:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: 12.5.07, 7 p.m. — Chee, Snyder, Clark « PAGE Series http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-75860 12.5.07, 7 p.m. — Chee, Snyder, Clark « PAGE Series Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:25:04 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-75860 [...] CHEE, author of Edinburgh: A Novel [...] […] CHEE, author of Edinburgh: A Novel […]

]]> By: Lois Sandusky http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-29185 Lois Sandusky Sun, 20 May 2007 08:36:15 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-29185 Lance, thank you for getting me going on AC, whom I now greatly admire. You were right about him. I'm touting him now all over the place (in my tiny but dense circle of influence). You have brought me joy in a new author. Fine, enjoyable, to-the-point interview, too, btw. Lance, thank you for getting me going on AC, whom I now greatly admire. You were right about him. I’m touting him now all over the place (in my tiny but dense circle of influence). You have brought me joy in a new author. Fine, enjoyable, to-the-point interview, too, btw.

]]> By: sheryl monks http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-26109 sheryl monks Tue, 08 May 2007 11:06:55 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-26109 Great interview, Lance. I love the kind of faith Chee shows when he talks about how the novel formed itself between other projects. "I put them all in a binder and I said, Here you go, decide what you are and then tell me." When the writer trusts that way, the reader does, too. Fabulous. Thanks. Great interview, Lance. I love the kind of faith Chee shows when he talks about how the novel formed itself between other projects. “I put them all in a binder and I said, Here you go, decide what you are and then tell me.” When the writer trusts that way, the reader does, too. Fabulous. Thanks.

]]> By: Susan Henderson http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-4173 Susan Henderson Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:49:02 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-4173 This is one of those interviews that's been crawling deeper and deeper inside since I first read it. The conversation is wise and full of heartaches and truths and poetry. Thanks again to both of you. And to Jim, Myf, Juliet, Kaytie, Heather, Pamela and Pia for where you've taken the conversation. This is one of those interviews that’s been crawling deeper and deeper inside since I first read it. The conversation is wise and full of heartaches and truths and poetry. Thanks again to both of you. And to Jim, Myf, Juliet, Kaytie, Heather, Pamela and Pia for where you’ve taken the conversation.

]]> By: Lance Reynald http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-4033 Lance Reynald Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:55:38 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-4033 thanks to everyone for chipping in a few comments here. and countless thanks to Alexander Chee for everything he brought to the chat. and Juliet, everything you said up there is what keeps me reading. If a writer brings That, I'm hooked, otherwise....well, I find it somewhere... thanks to everyone for chipping in a few comments here.

and countless thanks to Alexander Chee for everything he brought to the chat.

and Juliet, everything you said up there is what keeps me reading. If a writer brings That, I’m hooked, otherwise….well, I find it somewhere…

]]> By: Pia http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-4029 Pia Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:41:19 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-4029 This is a fine interview, Lance. You did good! What Alexander says about epiphanies coming out of your "whole intelligence" is brilliant. Exactly. They're not about being right or hitting some nail on the head. That the writer has to "tear them out of the undifferentiated dark of your mind" (I could go to school on that idea) is what makes the good ones not-obvious, and why they complicate and deepen what we think we already know. This is a fine interview, Lance. You did good! What Alexander says about epiphanies coming out of your “whole intelligence” is brilliant. Exactly. They’re not about being right or hitting some nail on the head. That the writer has to “tear them out of the undifferentiated dark of your mind” (I could go to school on that idea) is what makes the good ones not-obvious, and why they complicate and deepen what we think we already know.

]]> By: Alexander Chee http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-4020 Alexander Chee Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:16:51 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-4020 Thanks, Juliet and thanks to the other commenters for the compliments and the comments. Thank you to Lance for asking me to do the interview---and for the excellent questions. And thanks to Susan, for your work here at Litpark. I'll be checking in throughout the week if there's any follow-up questions that people have. Thanks, Juliet and thanks to the other commenters for the compliments and the comments. Thank you to Lance for asking me to do the interview—and for the excellent questions. And thanks to Susan, for your work here at Litpark. I’ll be checking in throughout the week if there’s any follow-up questions that people have.

]]> By: Juliet http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-4014 Juliet Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:34:57 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-4014 I've been thinking of this since Saturday. Wondering how to put into words the intensity of emotion evoked in not only the article, but in the book itself. Coming back today to seven comments (including my original) made me think again at how very unable we are as a people to know what to speak in response to the baring of one's soul. We're quite good at the congratulations. Good, even at the condolence. But watch someone uncloak the rawness of the deepest regions of humanity and pain, and suddenly even we, the wordsmiths, are mute. It's a rare gift—daring to touch what no one will speak of. Daring to write the words, the pain, the hope. Thank you, Alexander, and Lance, for stepping into the words, and in that, to touching our hearts. I, for one, am touched. I’ve been thinking of this since Saturday. Wondering how to put into words the intensity of emotion evoked in not only the article, but in the book itself.

Coming back today to seven comments (including my original) made me think again at how very unable we are as a people to know what to speak in response to the baring of one’s soul.
We’re quite good at the congratulations.
Good, even at the condolence.

But watch someone uncloak the rawness of the deepest regions of humanity and pain, and suddenly even we, the wordsmiths, are mute.

It’s a rare gift—daring to touch what no one will speak of. Daring to write the words, the pain, the hope.

Thank you, Alexander, and Lance, for stepping into the words, and in that, to touching our hearts.
I, for one, am touched.

]]> By: Pamela Erens http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-3926 Pamela Erens Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:29:58 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-3926 I also really love this: "...if you’ve made it [the book] as well as you can, and you feel like you’ve been true to your intuitions and your vision of the book, then you’re protected for when people love it or when they hate it. Which is to say, if they love it, you know enough to know your intuitions matter and you can make work that will risk their not loving it.... And if they hate it, well, you can say, This is what I saw." Great interview! I also really love this:

“…if you’ve made it [the book] as well as you can, and you feel like you’ve been true to your intuitions and your vision of the book, then you’re protected for when people love it or when they hate it. Which is to say, if they love it, you know enough to know your intuitions matter and you can make work that will risk their not loving it…. And if they hate it, well, you can say, This is what I saw.”

Great interview!

]]> By: Heather McElhatton http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-3870 Heather McElhatton Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:14:29 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/01/20/reynald%e2%80%99s-rap-lance-reynald-chats-with-alexander-chee/#comment-3870 Great interview. Chee is fabulous - and so was Lance and his questions...Obviously a writer interviewing a writer. I mean, when I read, "In the writing of the story did you find it difficult not stepping in to protect them?" I had to go make myself a drink and stare out the window a while. Great interview. Chee is fabulous - and so was Lance and his questions…Obviously a writer interviewing a writer.

I mean, when I read, “In the writing of the story did you find it difficult not stepping in to protect them?” I had to go make myself a drink and stare out the window a while.

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