Chee writes about learning to read Tarot cards, and dressing in drag, and attending Annie Dillard’s undergraduate fiction course at Wesleyan. If you are not looking to write an autobiographical novel: you are welcome here, too. If you are looking to write an autobiographical novel (or anything, really): you have come to the right place. Which is exactly what I was doing.” The essays are wide-ranging but all circle their central subject: how and why he wrote his first book, Edinburgh, which was based on his childhood sexual assault. “I now know this is also what it feels like to write a novel. “During the first winter, at night, I sometimes feel as I imagine they do, as if the part of me that is exposed is plain, stripped of all ornament, spreading,” Alexander Chee writes of his roses in the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel.
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