The rise of autofiction has led to the need for a new genre of literary criticism: autocriticism, writes the Danish critic Mette Leonard spectator.co.uk/article/should…

The fact is I’ve written six autobiographical novels…. all dealing with different parts of my life, and basically all names and events included in them are authentic, meaning they describe actual occurrences... - Karl Ove Knausgaard, The End. instagram.com/reel/CiDWPi7ol…

Autofiction writer Annie Ernaux wins Nobel prize! theguardian.com/books/live/202…

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

Looking forward to this!

Want to know more about archival autofiction? Read this chapter by me Dr. Alison Gibbons & Dr Elin Ivansson in the newly published Routledge Companion to Literary Media edited by Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin, Julia Round & onlinereaders!

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).

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

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“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.

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

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.” 😂

Really enjoyed hearing RICHARD AYOADE talking about The Unfinished Harauld Hughes at Off the Shelf Festival of Words 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!