Although people talk, as though it were a new thing, about the form of fiction known in France as auto-fiction ("self-fiction") — the narration of one's own life, lifted almost unchanged from the reality, selected, and judiciously, artfully told — Lucia Berlin had been doing this, or a version of this, as far as I can see, from the beginning, back in the nineteen-sixties.
Having long since shaken off the kind of stigma that still attaches to, say, self-published fiction, the self-published photobook is currently a mini-phenomenon within the bigger thriving culture of photography book publishing.
The catch being that Gandolfini's greatness as a screen actor was to intermingle self and fiction inextricably, so that it felt as if his New Jersey mobster really lived and felt.
He was alone with the self-inflicted fiction of his voyage.
The author recently made his debut in self-declared fiction, with Bright Shiny Morning.
The essay bemoans what Wallace saw as the near-impossibility of writing inventive, self-aware fiction in a television culture.
A highly self-conscious fiction emerged, laying bare its own literary devices, questioning the nature of representation, and often imitating or parodying earlier fiction rather than social reality.
Directed or perhaps more rightly orchestrated by Mads Brugger ("The Red Chapel"), "The Ambassador" exists in that politically and ethically murky space between documentary fact and fancifully self-serving fiction.
But at the horizon all around was the comforting silhouette of a New York skyline, the anchor of a self-centered fiction.
A few years earlier, during a panel that followed a screening of "Margot at the Wedding," an audience member compared Nicole Kidman's character, a self-involved fiction writer, to Hitler's mother.
"I like a lot of the names I see on spam e-mails because they're completely abstract, with little conception of culture or traditional sounds," said a posting by someone using the name Oissubke, a self-described fiction writer.
