Rabih Alameddine: A Writer Fueled by Life’s Randomness
“When I’m told I should write a certain way, I bristle,” Rabih Alameddine wrote in a 2018 Harper’s essay. “I even attempt to write in opposition to the most recent book I finished. If my previous novel was expansive, I begin to write microscopically; if quiet, I write loudly. It is my nature.” The 66-year-old artist and novelist has, over the course of a nearly three-decade career, turned this…







