Writing autobiographical fiction

What’s important is that the genre is flexible and allows for a conversation between fictional and nonfictional elements

Some literary theorists abide by “Death of the Author,” in which the author’s opinions are unimportant to the work’s interpretation

If any genre directly challenges this assertion, it’s autobiographical fiction

Editing is a crucial step with anything that you write

And it’s particularly useful when writing autobiographical fiction, since when you’re personally connected to a story it may take time to set yourself outside of it and view it from a more objective—and more fictionalized—angle

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics

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