Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How to write an autobiographical novel

Oclc number

1021876832

Responsibility statement

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."--Front flip cover

Table Of Contents

The curse -- The querent -- The writing life -- 1989 -- Girl -- After Peter -- My parade -- Mr. and Mrs. B -- 100 things about writing a novel -- The rosary -- Inheritance -- Impostor -- The autobiography of my novel -- The guardians -- How to write an autobiographical novel -- On becoming an American writer

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