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Book

How to write an autobiographical novel : essays

Call Number

  • 814 C5151 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]

Physical Description

280 pages ; 21 cm

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"--

" ... 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.

Notes

"A Mariner Original."

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.

Subjects

Genres

Essays.