How To Write An Autobiographical Novel: Essays

How To Write An Autobiographical Novel: Essays

<DIV><B>Named a Best Book by: <I>TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly</I>, NPR, <I>Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed</I>, New York Public Library, <I>Boston Globe, The Paris Review, Mother Jones,</I><I>The A.V. Club, Out Magazine, Book Riot</I></B>, <I>Electric Literature,</I> <B><I>PopSugar</I>, <I>The Rumpus</I>, <I>My Republica</I>, <I>Paste</I>, <I>Bitch,</I> <I>Library Journal,</I> <I>Flavorwire</I>, <I>Bustle</I>, <I>Christian Science Monitor,</I> <I>Shelf Awareness, </I>Tor.com, <I>Entertainment Cheat Sheet</I>, <I>Roads and Kingdoms</I>, Chicago Public Library, <I>Hyphen Magazine</I>, <I>Entropy Magazine,</I><I>The Chicago Review of Books, The Coil</I>, iBooks, and <I>Washington Independent Review of Books</I><BR /><BR /> Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction * Recipient of the Lambda Literary Trustees' Award<BR /> Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay * Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography<BR /><BR /> From the author of <I>The Queen of the Night</I>, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art.</B><BR /><BR /> As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times, and "brilliant" by the <I>Washington Post</I>. With <I>How to Write an Autobiographical Novel,</I> his first collection of nonfiction, he’s sure to secure his place as one of the finest essayists of his generation as well.<BR />  <BR /><I>How to Write an Autobiographical Novel </I>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, <I>Edinburgh,</I> and the election of Donald Trump.<BR />  <BR /> By turns commanding, heartbreaking, and wry, <I>How to Write an Autobiographical Novel</I> asks questions about how we create ourselves in life and in art, and how to fight when our dearest truths are under attack.</DIV>