This page is where we maintain an index of the literature analysis that we have done so far.
Book analysis – Alex Chee/ How to write an Autobiographical Novel
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Chapter 3 – The writing life
Notes and observations: Beginning The chapter starts with a letter that Alex Chee wrote to Annie Dillard, when he applied for her literary non-fiction class at Wesleyan University (where he is eventually accepted). There’s some plenty of good writing advice in this chapter and the first one is revealed to us at the very beginning…
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Introduction to analysis – Alex Chee – How to write an autobiographical novel
We started reading Alex Chee’s “How to write an autobiographical novel” in April 2023. The book is a very personal account of Alex Chee’s life when he was coming to terms with many of his identities. Through these essays, Chee reveals his struggles as a gay person in the US of the 1980s, as a…