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Katie Soares wrote a new blog post Truth and Memoir in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 9 years, 6 months ago

Lauren’s Slater’s memoir, “Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir”(2000), is probably the most frustrating piece of creative non-fiction I have read to date. But has Slater effectively toed the line between fact and fiction […]
Katie Soares wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 11 years, 4 months ago

I think that Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home most definitely qualifies as literature. From a basic perspective I don’t believe its Tragicomic standing removes its literary aspect, but actually enhances it. On one basic […]
Katie Soares wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 11 years, 5 months ago

Coming off Lauren Slater’s “Lying” I feel like an overly permissive parent when it comes to “About A Mountain”, I feel stable in John D’Agata’s hands, while in Slater’s I was never really sure where I stood. He […]
Katie Soares wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text 11 years, 5 months ago

John Frow urges writers to “… rather than claiming to speak for anyone else, intellectuals should speak as intellectuals and address their readers as such”(78). I thought this was interesting in relation to […]
Katie Soares wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 11 years, 6 months ago

The problem with Lauren Slater is that she is conveying truth as she sees fit. This truth is complicated, considering that she has factors that allow her to come to a differing conclusion about her truths and […]
Katie Soares wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 11 years, 6 months ago

In my experience with creative non-fiction I’ve come across many techniques for delivery of information. What I think Ross McElwee has used is a sort of braided essay, albeit with some stray threads (ahem, Burt […]
Katie Soares wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 11 years, 6 months ago

Koenig is very much in the same position that we all are as listeners, she’s in control of how the story is presented, but ultimately, the ending is completely independent of both author and listener. While we […]
Katie Soares wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 11 years, 7 months ago

My kneejerk reaction to the statement “writers are always selling someone out” was based within the confines of John Wayne: A Love Song. In such an essay Didion sells herself out first by revealing how she has […]

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