Chee shares advice from Annie Dillard:

1. Put all your deaths, accidents and diseases up front, at the beginning.

2. Don’t ever use the word ‘soul,’ if possible.

12. Go to the place in the bookstore where your books will go, and put your finger there.

"Annie Dillard and the Writing Life"

Alexander Chee
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