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How to write an autobiographical novel : essays / by Alexander Chee.
Van Pelt Library PS3603.H44 Z46 2018
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chee, Alexander, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chee, Alexander.
- Authors, American--21st century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Autobiography--Korean American authors.
- Autobiography.
- Gay men--United States--Biography.
- Gay men.
- United States.
- Authorship.
- Quality or Trade Paperback.
- Literature--Classics / Criticism.
- Essays.
- LGBT.
- Composition & Creative Writing--General.
- Local Subjects:
- Quality or Trade Paperback.
- Literature--Classics / Criticism.
- Essays.
- LGBT.
- Composition & Creative Writing--General.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Essays.
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- 280 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
- Summary:
- "From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring how we form our identities in life, in politics, and in art"-- Provided by publisher.
- "...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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "A Mariner Original."--Title page.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Chee, Alexander. How to write an autobiographical novel.
- ISBN:
- 9781328764522
- 1328764524
- OCLC:
- 1021876832
- Publisher Number:
- 99976122794
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