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.
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.
Parasocial Hellscapes
Uncanny digital intimacy. Ring lights, comment sections, stan culture, identity crisis, doomscroll insomnia.
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.
Internet novels for the chronically online
Novels that heavily feature the internet. Suggestions welcome!
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.
