How to write an autobiographical novel : essays /
"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"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
[2018]
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | "A Mariner original." The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 280 pages ; 21 cm |
| Awards: | Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Longlist, 2019 NPR Best Books, 2018 |
| ISBN: | 9781328764522 1328764524 |