How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Alexander Chee
<p><B><p>A Mariner Original<BR /> From the author of <I>The Queen of the Night</I>, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist&#8212;and how we form our identities in life and in art.</B><BR /><p>As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as "masterful" by Roxane Gay, "incomparable" by Junot D&iacute;az, and "incendiary" by the <I>New York Times.</I> With <I>How to Write an Autobiographical Novel,</I> his first collection of nonfiction, he's sure to secure his place as one of the finest essayists of his generation as well.<BR /> <BR /><I>How to Write an Autobiographical Novel </I>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...