The literature of reality, with all of the pain and the secrets that authors confess, is helping to connect the nation and the world in a meaningful and intimate way.
When authors share truth from their own lives, or things they've witnessed in their experiences, it helps readers understand they're not alone.
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It's important to emphasize that creative nonfiction isn't just the telling of facts, but the weaving of a true narrative.
These are stories almost anyone could research and write.
I think this is part of what makes literary journalism, and creative nonfiction in general, so attractive, because it seems much more accessible than most other genres.