About the book
Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night, gathers essays spanning his life as a writer and teacher that ask how people form identities in life and in art. He writes about his identities as a Korean American, a gay man, an activist and a son, and he takes up his father's death, the AIDS crisis, the September 11 attacks and the election of Donald Trump. Other essays recall the Iowa Writers' Workshop, lessons from Annie Dillard, jobs reading Tarot and serving as a cater-waiter for William F. Buckley Jr., and writing his first novel, Edinburgh. Several first ran in magazines. The 2018 collection was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a PEN essay award.
Author Eula Biss endorsed it, praising its essays as extraordinarily beautiful explorations of what counts as real and how life becomes art.
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Eula Biss (Author)
Alex Chee explores the realm of the real with extraordinarily beautiful essays. Being real here is an ambition, a haunting, an impossibility, and an illusion. What passes for real, his essays suggest, becomes real, just as life becomes art and art, pursued this fully, becomes a life.
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