Fact vs Fiction - Karen Kao
Nonfiction isn’t high on my reading list. I’ll read it when I have to do research for my Shanghai Quartet. Or when my sons decide there’s something I need to know. But I prefer fiction that transports me to someplace I don’t know. Like Nigeria during the Biafran War or 1980s India . But now I’ve discovered creative nonfiction. It’s a big tent for all kinds of circus animals: journalism, essays, research papers, memoir. Even this blog post is creative nonfiction, at least, that’s what I hope to achieve. So what exactly is creative nonfiction? true stories, well told To start with, the term has been in use for several decades now. This is odd because most people who write creative nonfiction hate the term. Dinty Moore thinks it should be up to the reader to decide whether a work is creative or not. And the term nonfiction is an attempt to define the genre by what it is not . Quite a number of alternatives have already bitten the dust. Literary nonfiction (too pre...