nonfictional
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A title card announces that “some aspects and timelines have been fictionalized for purposes of dramatization,” adding that any resemblance of the fictional parts to anything nonfictional is not intended.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024
On its face, this is an obvious, even redundant statement — to varying degrees, this the way that all writers operate unless they’re creating something patently nonfictional.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2023
For a nonfictional portrait, consider this feature-length doc, which pairs the voices of some of Houston’s friends, family members and collaborators with tour footage from the late 1990s.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
Third Place Books bookseller Andrea Pangilinan, who organized the store’s new Radical Romance Book Club, said that sales of the genre tend to react to the state of things in the nonfictional world.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
“But we can start with the history of the Amyr. Or any nonfictional reports of the Chandrian. Anything about either one really. I haven’t been able to find a thing.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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