Because I am normally such a nonfiction stickler, I sometimes get a little flack from folks when it comes to works of history or science or biography. You see, I hate the mixing and melding of fact and fiction, but only in cases where the work pretends to be entirely informational. I have no problem with mixing literary techniques with nonfiction, just so long as we acknowledge that that is what’s going on. This is why I was so grateful years ago when Melissa Sweet came up with the term “inf...
Published on December 22, 2024 21:01