Nicole Chung: You’ve talked about the fact that some publishers wanted you to write The Queen of the Night first. You can read the first chapter here at Longreads or listen to an audiobook excerpt read by soprano Lisa Flanagan. We’re thrilled to share this follow-up interview on Alexander’s second novel, The Queen of the Night, which tells the story of a nineteenth-century opera singer whose talent and ambition take her from a homestead in Minnesota to the heights of stardom in Paris. As of this writing, The Queen of the Night is in its fifth printing just two weeks after publication, and has entered the Los Angeles Times Bestseller List at #6. Last summer The Toast published a wide-ranging interview with Alexander Chee, contributing editor at The New Republic and Lit Hub, editor at large at VQR, and winner of the Whiting Award for his first novel, Edinburgh.
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