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Named a Best Book by:
TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library, Boston Globe, The Paris Review, Mother Jones, The A.V. Club, Out Magazine, Book Riot, Electric Literature, PopSugar, The Rumpus, My Republica, Paste, Bitch, Library Journal, Flavorwire, Bustle, Christian Science Monitor, Shelf Awareness, Tor.com, Entertainment Cheat Sheet, Roads and Kingdoms, Chicago Public Library, Hyphen Magazine, Entropy Magazine, The Chicago Review of Books, The Coil, iBooks, and Washington Independent Review of Books
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography
Finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction
One of Min Jin Lee's Summer Reads in the Washington Post
One of Curtis Sittenfeld's Summer Reads in the Guardian
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of 2018
"Alexander Chee is one of the best living writers of today. If he's not already a household name, he needs to be...powerful, powerful essays with powerful, powerful words..."
--Buzzfeed's Isaac Fitzgerald, on NBC's TODAY
"If writing, too, is a form of drag for Chee, it is also an act of mystic invocation and transference...Chee leavens his heaviest topics--the decimation of the gay community in the late 1980s and early '90s, the repressed memory of sexual abuse that inspired Edinburgh--with charming episodes like his stint as a waiter at William and Pat Buckley's Park Avenue maisonette, a job that prompted a crisis of conscience given Buckley's infamous proposal to brand AIDS patients on their wrists and buttocks...Even at his most mystical, Chee is generous; these pieces are personal, never pedagogical. They bespeak an unguarded sincerity and curiosity. Chee is refreshingly open about his sometimes liberating, sometimes claustrophobic sense of exceptionality...He reminds us that whomever a writer pictures as his audience, he is also writing into absence, standing in testimony for the sake of the dead. Like most of the essays here, 'After Peter' pulses with urgency, one piece from a life in restless motion. It is not necessary to agree that How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is itself a kind of novel in order to appreciate that Chee has written a moving and personal tribute to impermanence, a wise and transgressive meditation on a life lived both because of and in spite of America, a place where, he writes, you are allowed to speak the truth as long as nothing changes.'"
--New York Times Book Review
"Two-thirds of the way through Alexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, I abandoned my sharpened reviewer's pencil in favor of luxuriating in the words. Chee's writing has a mesmerizing quality; his sentences are rife with profound truths without lapsing into the didactic...Chee is a very special artist; his writing is lyrical and accessible, whimsical and sad, often all at the same time. No doubt he is an inspiring writing teacher as well. His views on writing reflect his own, thoughtfully examined life."
--NPR
"As Chee's gaze turns inward, he beckons readers to experience his private moments with such clarity and honesty that we're immediately brought into his consciousness. At the same time, he asks us to contemplate the largest questions about identity, sexuality, family, art and war...[A] trailblazing collection...By the end of this moving collection, we learn through Chee's experiences that to be a writer is to continuously reconsider the self, to find what drives you even in moments of despair."
--Washington Post
"Alexander Chee's marvel of a collection opens with the sting of clarity...The 16 essays that knit together his profound and resonant collection are a nimble study in radical self-invention...The revelations that follow crackle with the same glowing, essential truths."
--Wired
"Chee's insights about writing, love and activism are hard-won, honest and incredibly wise."
--Curtis Sittenfeld, Guardian
"The latest brilliant fiction writer to publish a new essay collection this year...Alexander Chee proves why he's a master of the form. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel meditates on how art shapes who we are, unpacking its author's own coming-of-age as a gay Korean man to craft persuasive, engrossing arguments."
--Entertainment Weekly
"As profound as they are beautiful, Chee's essays impart wisdom from a life fully lived, and speak to what it means to be a writer and reader in contemporary times."
--Buzzfeed
"Alexander Chee published Edinburgh, a singularly beautiful and psychologically harrowing first book that still stands as one of the best American novels of this century. Now, he's published How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, a first book of essays that is just as good, and almost as singular, as his novelistic debut...How good is How to Write an Autobiographical Novel? It's so good that I could fill my word count just with quotations...one of its beauties is how simultaneously shaped and flexible it is, both thematically coherent and varied in subject matter...Chee's particular style of mind and habits of moral engagement hold the collection together; every essay, no matter the subject, exhibits warmth, rigor, tact...The mask conceals and it reveals; writing transfigures and it uncovers. That's the gift that writing has given Chee, and it's the gift that his wonderful new collection gives its readers."
--The Boston Globe
"A searing examination of the costs of writing...achingly vulnerable."
--Vox
"A deeply probing exploration of being a writer, an activist, gay, and half-Korean all at once. Hewing to his own advice as a teacher, he places no limits on the questions he asks of himself and of the reader, which feel at once overwhelmingly intimate but strikingly universal...How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is filled with the uncertainty that comes with feeling your sense of self forming. It is, at once, a memoir and a survival guide for being your most authentic self."
--Mother Jones
"A knowing and luminous self-portrait."
--O, the Oprah Magazine
"Chee's essays convey the effect of new forms being invented before your eyes. His book is a fragmented portrait of the young artist donning and shedding various masks. Chee makes use of conventional vehicles -- the memoir, the list, the litany of didactic aphorisms -- to arrive at moral and aesthetic discoveries that you sense he didn't see coming himself."
--Vulture, Top Ten Books of the Year
"Part memoir, part writing how-to, Alexander Chee's essay collection, How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, proves that the two-time novelist ranks not only as one of our most important writers but also among our greatest souls...These essays offer much more than an inspirational template to becoming an artist, but propose a blueprint for living a beautiful life."
--The A.V. Club
"Alexander Chee has been a beloved writing teacher and generous supporter of fellow authors for quite a while. His first collection of nonfiction is a lovely reminder that there is indeed an art to the personal essay, and he is a master artist."
--Maris Kreizman, Esquire
"In place of the imperative structure characteristic of so many craft books that cheerfully promise a way forward, that evince a comfortable universe of coherent rules and achievable outcomes, Chee offers instead the roundabout and the recursive, the indirect and stubbornly nonlinear. His essays are an invitation not to review the rules of writing, but to trace a unique pathway into knowledge and being in and through writing...Chee is an adroit observer...There's a sumptuousness in Chee's writing, a confident acumen that forgoes high drama in favor of amicable ease."
--Holly Willis, Los Angeles Review of Books
"Unique and powerful, insistently itself."
--R.O. Kwon, Electric Literature
"Chee proves masterful when he turns to descriptions of real life...Rarely does a book of essays come along so affecting, so brave and bluntly honest, and so raw and poetic. I quit underlining my favorite aphoristic lines by the time I reached that third essay: it was useless to try to pick individual diamonds from a whole pile of them."
--Interview Magazine
"When you dive into Alexander Chee's collection of essays, expect to frequently pause and soak up his gorgeous writing. To read Chee is to find yourself submerged in whatever topic--9/11, Tarot reading, his father's death, the AIDS crisis, rose gardening--he's discussing until you're living in between the pages. Chee succeeds in weaving an intimacy born of honesty, bluntly writing about, well, the writing process and the stories we tell ourselves. We knew he was a talented novelist (check out Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night), but with How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Chee cements himself as a master essayist as well."
--Paste Magazine
"There is not a book out this year, or for many years in recent memory, that did what Alexander Chee did...With absolutely gorgeous prose, Chee strikes the perfect balance of teaching you a lesson and equipping you with wisdom, without pandering or sensationalizing. This man is the mentor you never had, and continues to be one of the best writers in the game."
--Out Magazine
"If you're the kind of writer who will never get an MFA but wants to know more about how writers are trained and how they think, there's so much to consider and it's provided in the kind of prose that will thrill you and make you deeply jealous."
--Book Riot
"I love [Chee's] novels, but he is also wicked smart, and has many insightful, thoughtful things to say about the world."
--Liberty Hardy, Book Riot
"In his first collection of nonfiction essays, novelist Alexander Chee immortalizes himself through his art and literature...Enlightening, revealing the true impact of the arts."
--Bitch
"Engrossing, smart, insightful, intimate, moving, responsibly adventurous, somewhat meditative, even occasionally luscious."
--The Stranger
"A master class in memoir, writing, and life."
--Shondaland
"The central essay "The Autobiography of My Novel" is almost a pure lesson in craft, and a deliciously generous one...offer[s] the reader the unique gift of being both affirming of the writing life, no matter how winding or torturous or incomprehensible it might be, and affirming of the simple fact that we are alive in the world at all."
--Literary Hub
"Chee has lived a disarmingly full life. His essays veer between straight memoir and craft and writing-life rumination, a perfect mix. I've been browsing through each installment one by one, out of order, for months now --approaching the pieces about novel-writing with a mix of rabid hunger for wisdom and fear that they will reveal my own shortcomings as a writer. I shouldn't be scared: Chee's thoughtful, self-aware candor pervades each piece, all of which are threaded together by a deep, but never grandiose, faith in storytelling."
--Flavorwire
"Bears all the hallmarks of the writer's intelligence, curiosity and precision with language...entertaining and illuminating...Alexander Chee demonstrates how to transform life into art in this sharp and thoughtful collection of essays."
--Shelf Awareness
"Poetic and utterly moving, this stunning book attempts to get at the heart of how we not only create but defend out identities, to ourselves and to the world."
--Bustle
"Compelling...Gorgeous, dense, provocative...Chee delivers 16 essays of varying weights and lengths, mostly in the first person and largely in chronological order. The effect is both profound and incremental, of stories that stand alone and work together to unveil a life...Chee's variegated memoir alternates between coming-of-age stories and self-scrutiny, a writer's lessons and appraisal of his own work, each mapping parts of a larger identity. The book is operatic in its range, reflecting the author's life as an outsider not only to the culture, but at times, to his family and himself. The resulting narrative makes for some powerful, lyrical prose."
--Portland Press Herald
"Alexander Chee is a writer whose work you should know, and you're lucky because his new book is the perfect introduction...Simply gorgeous...There are few writers whose collections of nonfiction can induce the kind of collective awe and excitement that Chee seems to cause...Chee isn't just brilliant, he's an original...To a generation of queer writers, Chee is a beacon, measuring stick, and fairy godmother. It would be simplistic to say that Chee's work provided me with a working model of how one could go about life as a queer artist of color, but it would also be the truth, or part of the truth...In his excellent first essay collection seems to have all the answers I've been craving."
--Brandon Taylor, them.
"Pretty much universally beloved...Crammed with wit and elegance and feeling and hard, practical lessons for being a better, smarter, more conscientious--and straight up more conscious--writer."
--Roads and Kingdoms
"Don't be misled by its title: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee will teach you anything but. That being said, reading the work of a master like Chee cannot help but force you to improve your own writing, if that's your thing. He won't tell you how to write, but gosh darn it he will certainly show you. Whether he's describing the sound of mangoes (or bullets) hitting windshields outside while he tried to sleep during his summer spent living in Mexico as a teenage boy, or reminiscing about working for some of the wealthiest people in America in his late twenties, Chee keeps the reader engaged in his essays as if they were works of elaborate and suspenseful fiction. But these aren't simply stories of a man's life. These essays offer wisdom, hope, and beauty in the most unexpected places. They are tiny works of art short enough to devour in one sitting yet long enough to savor over a three day weekend. There are countless lines in here that are just begging to be underlined, circled, or highlighted. Indulge yourself. Good books are meant to be ravaged. If you're new to essay collections, I suggest you start here. Chee knows how to teach all of us things without ever seeming like he isn't one of us. His voice is present in each piece in this delicate collection in a different and special way. These stand alone beautifully and need no context to be appreciated, but read toge...
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Named a Best Book by: TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library, Boston Globe, The Paris Review, Mother Jones,The A.V. Club, Out Magazine, Book Riot, Electric Literature,PopSugar, The Rumpus, My Republica, Paste, Bitch,Library Journal,Flavorwire, Bustle, Christian Science Monitor,Shelf Awareness, Tor.com, Entertainment Cheat Sheet, Roads and Kingdoms, Chicago Public Library, Hyphen Magazine, Entropy Magazine,The Chicago Review of Books, The Coil, iBooks, and Washington Independent Review of Books
Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction * Recipient of the Lambda Literary Trustees' Award
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay * Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography
From the author of The Queen of the Night, 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’s 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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