Shortlisted For The Pendiamonstein-spielvogel Award For The Art Of The Essaynamed A Best Book Of 2018 By Time, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, Paste, Bitch, Bustle, The Chicago Review Of Books And Ibooksas A Novelist, Alexander Chee Has Been Described As Masterful By Roxane Gay, Incendiary By The New York Times, And Brilliant By The Washington Post. With How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, His First Collection Of Nonfiction, He Secures His Place As One Of The Finest Essayists Of His Generation.how To Write An Autobiographical Novel Is The Authors Exploration Of 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 Interconnected Essays He Constructs A Self, Growing From Student To Teacher, Reader To Writer, And Reckoning With His Identities As A Son, A Gay Man, A Korean American, An Artist, An Activist, A Lover And A Friend.