Metafiction - Definition and Reading List

 I like the idea of metafiction - writing about writing - when it does not devolve into navel-gazing There is life outside of writers writing about writing.

Arianna Reiche's Blurred Lines: A Reading List of Metafiction from LitHub provides a reading list and this definition:

It’s that spooky frisson that makes you, for a split second, want to throw your book across the room. Or chuckle. Or flail, blindly, for the familiar barrier between storyworld and readerworld—you know, your world. There’s nothing as electric as an experimental flourish executed well, and metafiction (defined, loosely, as fiction which draws attention to its own structure or nature) has long been fertile ground for literature’s rule-breakers and boundary-pushers.

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