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Natalia Ginzburg; Introduction by Alexander Chee
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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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Edinburgh (Paperback)
Alexander Chee
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'Every word makes me ache ... Written with exquisite empathy and
grace' Roxane Gay 'Singularly beautiful and psychologically
harrowing ... One of the best American novels of this century'
Boston Globe Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a
newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys'
choir. At their summer camp, situated in an idyllic and secluded
lakeside retreat, Fee grapples with his complicated feelings
towards his best friend, Peter. But as Fee comes to learn how the
director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says
nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter is in line to be next.
When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his
silence. Yet the actions of the director have vast consequences,
and in their wake, Fee blames only himself. In the years that
follow he slowly builds a new life, teaching near his hometown.
There, he meets a young student who is the picture of Peter - and
is forced to confront the past he believed was gone.
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Burden of Ashes (Paperback)
Justin Chin; Foreword by Alexander Chee
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Dracula (Paperback)
Bram Stoker; Introduction by Alexander Chee; Illustrated by Kaitlin Chan; Introduction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Edinburgh (Paperback)
Alexander Chee
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Named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Magazine, the Washington
Post, Publisher's Weekly, NPR, and Time, among many others, this
essay collection from the author of The Queen of the Night explores
how we form identities in life and in art. 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
his first collection of nonfiction, he's sure to secure his place
as one of the finest essayists of his generation as well. How to
Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author's manifesto on 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 essays, he grows from student to teacher, reader to
writer, and reckons 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 the
nation'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. Named a Best Book by: Time, Washington Post,
Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, New York
Public Library, Boston Globe, Paris Review, Mother Jones, The A.V.
Club, Out Magazine, Book Riot, Electric Literature, PopSugar, The
Rumpus, My Republica, Paste, Bitch, Library Journal, Flavorwire,
Bustle, Christian Science Monitor, Shelf Awareness, Tor.com,
Entertainment Cheat Sheet, Roads and Kingdoms, Chicago Public
Library, Hyphen Magazine, Entropy Magazine, Chicago Review of
Books, The Coil, iBooks, and Washington Independent Review of Books
Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Randy Shilts Award for Gay
Nonfiction * Recipient of the Lambda Literary Trustees' Award *
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of
the Essay * Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Gay
Memoir/Biography
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning
writer Alexander Chee. Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity
and power" (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of
thousands that represent the best examples of the form published
the previous year.
***2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST*** DISASTERAMA: Adventures
in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997, is the true story of Alvin
Orloff who, as a shy kid from the suburbs of San Francisco,
stumbled into the wild, eclectic crowd of Crazy Club Kids, Punk
Rock Nutters, Goofy Goofballs, Fashion Victims, Disco Dollies,
Happy Hustlers, and Dizzy Twinks of post-Stonewall American queer
culture of the late 1970s, only to see the "subterranean lavender
twilit shadow world of the gay ghetto" ravished by AIDS in the
1980s. Includes an introduction by Alexander Chee (How to Write an
Autobiographical Novel. In Disasterama, Orloff recalls the
delirious adventures of his youth-from San Francisco to Los Angeles
to New York-where insane nights, deep friendships with the
creatives of the underground, and thrilling bi-coastal living led
to a free-spirited life of art, manic performance, high camp
antics, and exotic sexual encounters, until AIDS threatened to
destroy everything he lived for. In his introduction, award-winning
essayist and novelist Alexander Chee notes, "There's a strange love
I have for these times that can be hard to explain. How can I love
what I lived through from a time that was as 'bad' as that? But as
I read this, and those days came into view again, what I think of
that love now is that there was a beauty to the beauty you found
then that was made the more fierce by the horror of what was
happening. If you could still find the worth of your life, still
find sex, love, friendship, your own self-worth amid these attempts
by the state at erasure and the ravages of the AIDS epidemic, then
it had the strength of something forged in fire." Orloff looks past
the politics of AIDS to the people on the ground, friends of his
who did not survive AIDS' wrath-the boys in black leather jackets
and cackling queens in tacky frocks-remembering them not as
victims, but as people who loved life, loved fun, and who were a
part of the insane jigsaw of Orloff's friends. Disasterama
showcases Orloff's wit and poignancy as he relays the true tale of
how a bunch of pathologically flippant kids floundered through a
deadly disaster, and, struggled to keep the spirit of camp and
radicalism alive, even as their friends lost their lives to the
plague.
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East Goes West (Paperback)
Younghill Kang; Foreword by Alexander Chee; Afterword by Sun-Young Lee
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Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the
United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of
Shakespeare to his name, Chungpa Han arrives in New York.
Struggling to support his studies, he travels throughout the United
States and Canada, observing the idealism, greed and shifting
values of the industrializing twentieth century.
Recommended by The Observer . . . 'One doesn't so much read it, as
one is bewitched by it. Epic, gorgeous, haunting' HANYA YANAGIHARA,
author of A Little Life When it begins, it begins as an opera
should begin: in a palace, at a ball, in an encounter with a
stranger, who you discover has your fate in his hands . . . She is
Lilliet Berne. And she is the soprano. 1882. One warm autumn
evening in Paris, Lilliet is finally offered an original role,
though it comes at a price. The part is based on her deepest
secret. Only four people could have betrayed her: one is dead, one
loves her still, one wants only to own her. And one, she hopes,
never thinks of her at all. In taking this role Lilliet is forced
to confront her darkest lies but will the truth save Lilliet - or
destroy her? 'Brilliantly extravagant' VOGUE 'Terrific' NEW YORKER
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