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How to write an autobiographical novel, essays, by Alexander Chee

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How to write an autobiographical novel, essays, by Alexander Chee

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eng

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no index present

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non fiction

Main title

How to write an autobiographical novel

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by Alexander Chee

Sub title

essays

Summary

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

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