02221cam a2200313 i 4500 343273803 TxAuBib 20180419120000.0 180215s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017045808 9781328764522 15.99 1328764524 15.99 eng rda TxAuBib rda Chee, Alexander. How to write an autobiographical novel [BOOK] : essays / Alexander Chee. Boston, MA : Mariner Books, 2018. 280 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A Mariner Original". 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. 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. By turns commanding, heartbreaking, and wry, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel asks questions about how we create ourselves in life and in art, and how to fight when our dearest truths are under attack. Provided by publisher. 20180419. Chee, Alexander. Authors, American 21st century Biography. Authorship. Biographies.