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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm trying to understand what Alexander Chee means in this tweet. Anyone smarter than me care to explain?

[twitter]https://twitter.com/alexanderchee/status/1448749847289516033[/twitter][/quote]

Ditto. And again, tons of likes, so this gets circulated a fair amount. [/quote]

I think he's just saying that he doesn't want to talk about the kidney story anymore and he's tired of it continuing to dominate conversations.

They just announced the panels for AWP, the biggest writers conference in the US, for next March. It's a big deal because they didn't do the conference in person this year, and the 2020 AWP was very weird with low attendance because it basically happened as everything was shutting down. It's the last time a lot of folks last saw each other in person. I think a lot of people just want to move on to that and be excited about the idea of more in person literary events, and this story is a big bummer and kind of heavy and incriminating. Very much not the vibe folks like Chee want right now.

Though I have to say as panels were announced and people started talking about seeing each other in Philly next year, I definitely chuckled to myself thinking about some of the potential awkwardness do to this whole thing. I don't personally know anyone involved (Grub Street is not my scene and very little overlap with my little corner of the world) so I feel untouched by it, but I'm guessing there are some folks who suddenly have some very mixed feelings about seeing people again. Or not! I don't know. But it's a very weird time in literary circles right now![/quote]

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