How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

A Mariner Original

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.
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.

A Mariner Original De la autorul The Queen of the Night, o colectie de eseuri care exploreaza educatia sa ca om, scriitor si activist - si modul in care ne formam identitatile in viata si in arta. Cum se scrie un roman autobiografic este manifestul autorului despre incurcarea vietii, literaturii si politicii si modul in care l-au schimbat lectiile invatate dintr-o viata petrecuta citind si scriind fictiune.