Muriel Spark: Loitering with Intent. Ms. Spark passed away earlier this year. The book is an amusing account of life imitating art in "The Autobiographical Association".
Another author with a light-hearted touch: Amelie Nothomb. Her semi-autobiographical Le Sabotage amoureux takes place in Beijing while Stupeur et Tremblement tells about "her" experiences in a big company in Tokyo. However, I found more enjoyable the completely fictional Hygiène de l'assassin (something about an old author who drives his interviewers mad), Attentat (a modern Hunchback of Notre Dame tale), Cosmétique de l'ennemi (a traveller haunts another at the departure lobby of an airport).
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