How To Write An Autobiographical Novel: EssaysNamed a Best Book of 2018 by New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Publisher's Weekly, NPR, and Time, among many others, this essay collection from the author of The Queen of the Night explores how we form identities in life and in art. As 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 his first collection of nonfiction, hes sure to secure his

Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman

was a surrealist trickster par excellence

its people are educated and enterprising

with previously unseen archival materials

shoplifts a bathing suit for him―and ends up in the local newspaper indicted as a crazed

This is a book about trying to get outside oneself

her writing elevated yet slangy

A handsome and warmly inscribed copy all in all

and the shorter comics and zines now collected for the first time in Distant Ruptures

The work of influential and well-known political filmmakers such as Costa-Gavras

and the revelation of both the creator and the process through the writing itself

He recorded over 200 albums with his Arkestra