Reading Contemporary Autofiction

Read “A Cognitive Model of Reading Autofiction”, an open access article from the project here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Really enjoyed hearing @RichardAyoade talking about The Unfinished Harauld Hughes at @otsfestival this evening. He described it as a mockumentary but I’m wondering if (& hoping) it can be classed as autofiction. Leaving with a signed copy so I’m looking forward to finding out!

Damning description of an autofiction in an article I’m reading: “The author is queasily self-involved. Reading [this book & others by this author] is like being cornered in a bar by a wheedling, emotionally incontinent monomaniac who has a five martini head start on you.” 😂

“…autofiction is not only a literary genre, but also a reading strategy”

“The book in your hands calls itself a novel - and it is a novel, I maintain. So I want to assure the reader that everything that follows in this chapter is verifiable *non-fiction*.” - little gem from today’s autofiction reading. You’re welcome Twitter.

@jaclynpartyka @drpadawson Here is a 30% discount code if anyone would like to buy this book 👇🏼

Related project

Great to see this editorial project finally come to fruition! - Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority, Fictionality coedited with Elizabeth King and published by @UnivNebPress!

You write a book with a fictional tattoo and then the tattoo becomes real in the world and after that almost anything seems possible. […] seeing the way fiction can bleed into the world and leave a mark on someone’s skin. - Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility (2022).

Want to know more about archival autofiction? Read this chapter by me @alterAlison & @ElinIvansson in the newly published Routledge Companion to Literary Media edited by @AstridEnsslin, Julia Round & @onlinereaders1!

@clauselholmDK How was the playlist composed? What was the selection criteria?

Looking forward to this!

@mikloskiss_rug @BretEastonEllis Thank you! Hope you enjoy reading @alterAlison’s article!

Pleased (and very proud) to see that my recent article “A Cognitive Model of Reading Autofiction” is the second most read on the journal @ES_Routledge in the last year! Thanks to everyone who has read it!

Autofiction writer Annie Ernaux wins Nobel prize! #Echobox=1665054303" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/books/live/202…

I have some writers of colour in my corpus already: Amit Chanduri, Teju Cole, Percival Everett, Meena Kandasmy, Carmen Maria Machado, Ruth Ozeki, Ocean Vuong, Olivia Wenzel, & Charles Yu, (though arguably a few of these are memoir rather than autofiction). Would love more recs!

I read this article a while ago and am very aware that writers of colour are frequently overlooked in the autofiction canon! newrepublic.com/article/159951…

Hello autofiction fans! I’m looking for recommendations for 21C autofictions by writers of colour please! 🙏🏻