{"id":3292,"date":"2012-02-08T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/tgm-fiction-or-non-fiction-does-it-matter-any-more\/"},"modified":"2012-02-08T09:45:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:45:59","slug":"tgm-fiction-or-non-fiction-does-it-matter-any-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/08\/tgm-fiction-or-non-fiction-does-it-matter-any-more\/","title":{"rendered":"TG&#038;M: Fiction or non-fiction: Does it matter any more?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/arts\/russell-smith\/fiction-or-non-fiction-does-it-matter\/article2322838\/\" target=\"_blank\">from The Globe And Mail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RUSSELL SMITH<\/h4>\n<h1>Fiction or non-fiction: Does it matter any more?<\/h1>\n<p><em>Published\u00a0Wednesday, Feb. 01, 2012 3:46PM EST<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/beta.images.theglobeandmail.com\/archive\/01369\/WEB-frey_JPG_1369184cl-4.jpg\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: right; border-width: 0px; padding: 10px; margin: 0px\" title=\"Author James Frey appears on \" alt=\"Author James Frey appears on \" height=\"134\" width=\"240\" \/>The biggest topic in literature these days \u2013 aside from the endless e-book debate \u2013 is, once again, the difference between fiction and non-fiction.<\/p>\n<p>We dissected this issue in 2006, after James Frey\u2019s bestselling memoir of addiction turned out to be untrue. At the time, many people \u2013 particularly artists \u2013 argued that there was no reason to dismiss a powerful narrative simply because it was labelled non-fiction. They thought we would have enjoyed it just as much if we had known we were reading a novel.<\/p>\n<p>The Frey incident actually caused a backlash, I think, against journalistic accuracy among creative writers. It is so cool to say now that story is all and truth is irrelevant. I have heard of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/arts\/russell-smith\/fiction-or-non-fiction-does-it-matter\/article2322838\/#\" target=\"_blank\">university<\/a>\u00a0teacher of \u201cnon-fiction\u201d encouraging students to make stuff up in their memoirs. (The fact that memoir-writing is now a common graduate-level university course is also evidence of the rise of this issue.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, the focus of the discussion has turned the other way, not to things that claim to be true, but to things that claim to be art.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/arts\/russell-smith\/fiction-or-non-fiction-does-it-matter\/article2322838\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Globe And Mail<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Globe And Mail RUSSELL SMITH Fiction or non-fiction: Does it matter any more? Published\u00a0Wednesday, Feb. 01, 2012 3:46PM EST The biggest topic in literature these days \u2013 aside from the endless e-book debate \u2013 is, once again, the difference between fiction and non-fiction. We dissected this issue in 2006, after James Frey\u2019s bestselling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}