"The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people – and also so pleasurable – make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There’s a chaos agent quality to them: You just don’t know who’s going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who’s become an enemy."
- Alexander CheeAmerican author and essayist Alexander Chee is well-known for his perceptive observations on literature and society. He highlighted the erratic nature and intricate dynamics of social gatherings in order to discuss their significance in fiction in one of his essays. According to Chee, parties are fr…