HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the authors manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the le ssons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher, rea der 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 cr isis, 9/11,...[Read more]