The New Yorker
New Yorker article about Civitellian writer Alexander Chee (CRF 2011). He talks about his life experiences and how the process of writing has helped him face is own realities and thus become more in tune with his authentic self.
An excerpt reads: “‘Sometimes you don’t know who you are until you put on a mask,’ Chee writes. Each [excursion] into a kind of lived fiction allowed Chee to confront and accept something he had, at least in part, rejected about himself: his mixed heritage, his queerness…’The things I saw in my life, learned things, didn’t fit back into the boxes of my life,’ Chee writes. But they did fit into a novel. Through fiction, Chee was able to bring himself back to the real world.”