The Rise and Fall of Auto-Fiction

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The term has come to stand for a literary approach that does away with the conventions of fiction such as plot and invented characters. Author Rachel Cuskin says she feels it's gender-deserting that women who write it are assumed to be pulling from their diaries.

When a book's plot and characters don't break a ton of ground in and of themselves, you're left hoping that the writing and the perspective will be enough to make a book interesting—luckily for us, Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation is insightful and entertaining despite its narrow scope and well-trod material.

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