On Annie Ernaux and "autofiction"
And people who clip their nails on the subway, and whether or not they should be expelled from society.
In Exteriors Annie Ernaux writes about a young man clipping his fingernails on the metro outside Paris. I did not know this was an international phenomenon! Public nail-clipping always seemed the type of pointless vulgarity that would exclusively afflict Americans.
Anyone who has spent more than six months in New York has seen or he…