num_pages: 277
description: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the authors 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 nations history including his fathers death the AIDS crisis 9/11 the jobs that supported his writingTarot-reading bookselling cater-waiting for William F. Buckleythe writing of his first novel Edinburgh and the election of Donald Trump.
language: English
title: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
publisher: Mariner Books