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De: Alexander Chee
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An essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist - and how we form our identities in life and in art.

As 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, 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.

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©2018 Alexander Chee (P)2018 Blackstone Publishing Biografías y Memorias Esenciales de LGBTQIA+ Palabras, Idiomas y Gramática Redacción y Editorial Inspirador Para reflexionar

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This book swept me away and put me in the moment in the most beautiful way. It’s exquisitely written and makes me love the writer and want to read everything by him.
Thank you Alexander Chee for this book!
I’m telling everyone I know to read it.

Transcendental

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I loved this book despite it not being what I expected and instead being what I needed. I enjoyed the essays weaving me through his life and his relationship with writing. As he told his story, I was dropped into my own historical moments reliving the good and the bad.

The unexpected how-to

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I love this book. I read an interview with Alexander Chee in Poets & Writers. Because I am beginning to write essays, I decided to try his book. I was pleased, delighted, and amazed. Chee is a writer's writer. He delves into the craft, using personal stories as illustrations. He believes good writing can be taught and that writing matters. He has lived a life filled with surprising turns from a drag queen, to an ACT-Up activist, to a waiter for conservation William F. Buckley--all along, he plumbs lessons for writing and living. His book is a cross between Stephen King's "On Writing" and Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential." It is intimate and raw. His sentences sparkle, and his prose sings. I will enjoy listening to the book over again. I highly recommend it.

A Great Contemporary Collection of Essays

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The books movements mirrored the stories, each compelling, revealing, complex. I wish I knew at the beginning what I knew at the end, ain’t that life.

Meta

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Had my attention from start to finish. I wanted to read something different. I’m glad I picked this book for my thought provoking genre.

Very interesting!

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I enjoyed listening to this but the part of him dating a student made me disappointed in me. I don’t care if the kid graduate before they started dating it is an unbalance in power especially seen with what happened in the relationship. I am glad the author learned from the relationship.

The author’s voice

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I’ll be listening to this book again. The anecdotes and writing notes were made vibrant when coupled with a convincing and pleasant voice.

Craft Writing with Chiseled Narration

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Beautifully written and insightful essays. Chee’s writing is lyrical and clear-eyed. This was a great follow-up after Edinburgh, a book I could not put down.

Beautifully written and performed collection of essays

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I don’t usually like super gay books, but Audible recommended this one and it was incredible. Also the guy who reads it sounds like the bad guy in the movie There Will Be Blood and I LOVED that. Made it feel juicy and taboo. Really gave me a new appreciation for gay men. Fantastic writer.

Stunning and beautiful

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I went into this not knowing what to expect and am in a spell from this fine collection of essays. Well done, Chee.

Fine collection of essays

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