How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Alexander Chee · 2018
Chee writes essays on craft, identity, AIDS, and becoming a writer. Makes the personal essay feel vital.
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Assembled from essays published across fifteen years, the collection keeps circling the same ground; Korea, the catering jobs, the writing of Edinburgh return like refrains until you feel the recycling. Slighter pieces on tarot and rose gardening pad the spine, and the craft essays speak chiefly to readers who want to become writers themselves.
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