Autofiction functions as the prestige version of reality TV

Evidence

With similar admiration, Heather Love uses “realism” to name the “antiliterary quality” of “the facts speaking for themselves” in the microdetail of everyday life rendered by projects like Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. From National Book Award– winning poetry to six franchises of elite wives in faux documentary, culture has obliged the critics. Rankine and Real Housewives may be strange bedfellows, but the haute literary cohort of autofiction explicates the connection; as Dan Sinykin quips, “autofiction is the prestige version of reality TV.” — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 124

Categorization

• XREF: Connects the literary to the televisual—the reader can carry ‘autofiction as prestige reality TV’ into the Video chapter’s treatment of immediacy style on screen. — connects to: Critical pans function as a hallmark of successful reality television
• CANDY: ‘Autofiction is the prestige version of reality TV’ is a genuinely tweetable, quotable one-liner.