Recs if you like Fake Accounts...
assigned by frankie
almost every single book mentioned* on Frankie's Shelf youtube channel because their taste is wild and i love it.
updated as frankie posts. *mentioned as in the book is the focus of the video, listened in the description, or offhandedly said.
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autofiction: hyperreflection as an art form
Introspective books by people who observe a lot, ponder a lot, feel a lot, and write about it. Creative memoir, self-indulgent navel-gazing, or "wan little husks" (as Joyce Carol Oates once put it)... whatever you personally think about autofiction, including whether or not it really is a genre, this somewhat experimental form of writing most definitely gives both writers and readers a chance to engage in narratives in a different way.
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Parasocial Hellscapes
Uncanny digital intimacy. Ring lights, comment sections, stan culture, identity crisis, doomscroll insomnia.
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Influencers, Therapists, & Other Intimacy Vendors
Where intimacy is labour and feelings are billable. Therapists, streamers, friends-for-hire, trauma influencers - the new side hustles of the soul.
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Internet novels for the chronically online
Novels that heavily feature the internet. Suggestions welcome!
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Trump Panic Fiction
Based on Nicholas Gaskill’s article of the same name, these books analyse the liberal response to Trump’s rise, through ontological alarm concerning the “post-truth” age and the fragility of autofiction.
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