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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
by Alexander Chee
Feb. 10, 2019 - Feb. 10, 2019 (read/memoirs)

Chee, A. (2018). How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays. Mariner Books.


Mariner Books, 2018. 288 pages. Paperback. 9781328764522

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p.273
samizdat »
the clandestine copying and distribution of liter…
p.233
palinode »
(noun) an ode or song recanting or retracting som…
p.221
Klieg light »
an intense carbon arc lamp especially used in fil…
p.176
panegyric »
(noun) a eulogistic oration or writing / (noun) f…
p.176
portentous »
(adjective) of, relating to, or constituting a po…
p.276
there is no other world
I wanted to lead my students to another world, on…
p.274
that which you cannot yet imagine
[...] The point of it is in the possibility of be…
p.260
the whole center of the building is gone
[...] He had called the station from inside the f…
p.226
we are not what we think we are
We are not what we think we are. The stories we t…
p.202
ting fiction is an exercise in giving a shit
I have a theory of the first novel now, that it i…