Recs if you like Things I Don't Want to Know...

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.

a mix of nonfiction theory and culture writing and feminist novels

Because what's better than procrastinating writing by reading what other people have written about writing??

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