How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays Literary Fiction One fragment of the Blackthorn

One fragment of the Blackthorn family flees to Los Angeles

It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster

In Shaker Heights

shattering the idyllic tableau

partying like a rock star

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays Literary Fiction One fragment of the BlackthornHow to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author's manifesto on 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 essays, he grows from student to teacher, reader to writer, and reckons with his identities as a son, a gay man, a Korean American, an artist, an activist, a lover, and a friend. He examines some of the most formative experiences of his