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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. "...every essay, no matter the subject, exhibits warmth, rigour, tact... The mask conceals and it reveals; writing transfigures and it uncovers. That’s the gift that writing has given Chee..." - Anthony Domestico, Boston GlobeHow 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, Edinbur

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Author

Chee, Alexander

Publisher

Mariner Books;HMH Books; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781328764522

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Collections, Memoir, Language Learning

Rating

4.5 / 5 (681 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14