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What’s Real and What’s Not: Gish Jen on Writing Between the Factual Lines

What’s Real and What’s Not: Gish Jen on Writing Between the Factual Lines

Finding the Sweet Spot Between Memoir and Fiction

By Gish Jen | October 21, 2025

Art Imitates Life: Finding Creative Freedom in the Fusion of Fiction and Biography

Art Imitates Life: Finding Creative Freedom in the Fusion of Fiction and Biography

Megan Hunter on the Process Behind Her Novel of Vanessa Bell, Angelica Garnett and the Bloomsbury Group

By Megan Hunter | June 10, 2025

Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record

Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record

Aidan Ryan on Applying His Background in Fiction to the Challenges of Biography

By Aidan Ryan | June 4, 2025

Two Ways To Tell the Same Truth: Navigating the Boundary Between Fact and Fiction

Two Ways To Tell the Same Truth: Navigating the Boundary Between Fact and Fiction

Binnie Kirshenbaum: “To write fiction takes patience and fortitude to fend off the assumptions that our novels are memoirs.”

By Binnie Kirshenbaum | March 25, 2025

Fictionalizing Family: On What’s True and What’s Invented About Our Origins

Fictionalizing Family: On What’s True and What’s Invented About Our Origins

Linda Grant: “We are all made up of private family legends, we are all novels in the making.”

By Linda Grant | November 13, 2024

How Much of This is True? On the Subtle Nuances of Memoir and Autofiction

How Much of This is True? On the Subtle Nuances of Memoir and Autofiction

“We are all unreliable narrators, recounting our stories through the filters of perception and memory.”

By Matt Young | June 18, 2024

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