Join Louisville Pride Foundation’s LGBTQ Book Club and Asia Institute at Crane House’s QTAAPI (Queer Trans Asian American Pacific Islander) Group for an extra special Book Club Meeting. We are helping to kick off QTAAPI Week (the end of AAPI Heritage Month and the beginning of Pride Month) by discussing “How to Write an Autobiographical Novel” by Alexander Chee. As usual you can get this book for 20% off from Carmichael’s by mentioning our Book Club.

“How 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 life and the nation’s history, including his father’s death, the AIDS crisis, 9/11, the jobs that supported his writing—Tarot-reading, bookselling, cater-waiting for William F. Buckley—the writing of his first novel, Edinburgh, and the election of Donald Trump.