作者简介

ALEXANDER CHEE is the best-selling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review, and a critic at large at the Los Angeles Times. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, the New York Times Magazine, Slate, Guernica, and Tin House, among others. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College.

内容简介

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.


ALEXANDER CHEE is the best-selling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review, and a critic at large at the Los Angeles Times. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, the New York Times Magazine, Slate, Guernica, and Tin House, among others. He is an ...

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  • 多喜子
    [有声书] 作者是韩国和美国(爱尔兰裔)的混血儿,同性恋作家,听他的故事感觉真是另一个世界的人~ 人都有多重身份,书里最有感触的是他作为一些写作课程的老师的同时,也捉襟见肘靠写作为生。于是他感叹(大意): we don’t have to teach them that everything is a mess; we need to teach them how to survive if everything turns out a mess.12-12
  • OhBritney
    文笔相当好,但看到最后那些左派的陈词滥调感到很失望。01-30
  • 遠濤
    「一部小说,如一切写作,是音乐,那语言要求你读它的时候发出声音。所以,写一部小说,就是想起一首你从未听过的歌。」——《写长篇小说的一百条·三》作者肖像不错,眼睛有神。他来旧金山公众图书馆宣传,本有点动心,再看视频,已经是个美国大叔了,才死了这条心。外貌党无可救药。12-05
  • Imp
    chee真是个很有意思的人,虽然我好像并不是特别into他的文字风格。02-02
  • fugue
    It takes certain hubris to survive a world in the body he was born into. I found “on becoming an American writer” moving and the autobiography of his novel inspiring. 11-15

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