Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of
the Essay Named a Best Book of 2018 by TIME, Washington Post,
Entertainment Weekly, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, Paste, Bitch,
Bustle, The Chicago Review of Books and iBooks As a novelist,
Alexander Chee has been described as 'masterful' by Roxane Gay,
'incendiary' by the New York Times, and 'brilliant' by the
Washington Post. With How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, his
first collection of nonfiction, he secures his place as one of the
finest essayists of his generation. How to Write an
Autobiographical Novel is the author's exploration of the
entangling of life, literature and politics, and how the lessons
learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed
him. In these interconnected essays he constructs a self, growing
from student to teacher, reader to writer, and reckoning with his
identities as a son, a gay man, a Korean American, an artist, an
activist, a lover and a friend. He examines some of the most
formative experiences of his life and America's history, including
his father's death, the AIDS crisis, 9/11, the jobs that supported
his writing - Tarot-reading, bookselling, cater-waiting for William
F. Buckley - the writing of his first novel, Edinburgh, and the
election of Donald Trump. By turns commanding, heartbreaking and
wry, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel asks questions about
how we create ourselves in life and in art, and how to fight when
our dearest truths are under attack.
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