autofiction

While Wallen isn’t writing autofiction, it’s hard to separate the bitter drunk of his singles from the headlines he generates.

This month’s literature also blooms with hope, whether that’s easily spotted — as in Alison Bechdel’s witty autofiction and Ron Chernow’s biography of a great American humorist — or needs careful observation, as is the case with Yiyun Li’s reckoning with grief and Madeleine Thien’s stunning novel of ideas.

The show details the lead-up and sensational fallout from Truman Capote’s autofiction exposé of the gaggle of upper crust women in his social circle, which resulted in a banishment that would send “Gossip Girl” to the hospital in shock.

Knausgaard doesn’t understand the concept of restraint: Be it in his celebrated six-volume autofiction epic “My Struggle” or this, the third volume of a series about the mysterious arrival of a new star, he aspires to pack as much as he can in one book.

The nested-doll structure of Mäkelä’s film speaks to the writer-director’s fascination with the pleasures and perils of autofiction.