Writing Advice from Alexander Chee

A Q&A with the celebrated novelist, essayist, and teacher Alexander Chee.by Rich SmithThe title of Alexander Chee's collection of essays, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, is a joke. Chee is well-known for his first novel, the semi-autobiographical Edinburgh, and his second novel, The Queen of the Night, which came out in 2016. The new essay collection is not a "how-to," though, as the title suggests. As you read each of Chee's engrossing, smart, insightful, intimate, moving, responsib