How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Essays

Alexander Chee, Daniel K. Isaac

eAudio - 2018

An essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in artAs 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 How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, his first collection of nonfiction, he is 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, read...er 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,... more