nonfictional
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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
Bayard describes Pitts’s book as the “definitive nonfictional take” on Lem Billings’s life.
From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2022
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
How do you define the term astromycology here in our nonfictional universe?
From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2021
“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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