How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Chee, Alexander
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Chee, Alexander

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

Named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Publisher's Weekly, NPR, and...
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Chee, Alexander

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

$178.09
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Chee, Alexander

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

$178.09
Author: Alexander Chee
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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

Author: Alexander Chee
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 04/17/2018
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781328764522


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/18/2017
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2018 pg. 77
Library Journal 04/15/2018 pg. 72
Booklist 03/15/2018 pg. 11
Shelf Awareness 12/04/2018

About the Author

ALEXANDER CHEE is a novelist and essayist and an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic, an editor at large at The Virginia Quarterly Review, and a critic at large at The Los Angeles Times.


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