Gabriel Jandali Appel Gabriel Jandali Appel is the former business manager of The Drift. He is currently an editor at the Metrograph Journal.

Picking up the Shards | Why You Should Listen to Bret Easton Ellis

Gabriel Jandali Appel

For the most part, when I hear someone use the word “autofiction,” I stop listening to what that person is saying. Wikipedia defines the term as “a form of fictionalized autobiography” (which could describe, oh, say, half of the Western canon), before specifying that for autofiction to be autofiction, the main character ought to have the same name as the author. I guess people throw the term at Karl Ove...