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- noun Alternative spelling of
nonfiction .
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At the time, many people - particularly artists - argued that there was no reason to dismiss a powerful narrative simply because it was labelled non-fiction.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed RUSSELL SMITH 2012
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What most readers (my few; my treasured), who know me as an essayist, a writer of non-fiction, may not know is that I also write poetry, that I began writing as a poet . . . and that I then wrote (and published) jazz lyrics to tunes written by such composers as Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Kenny Dorham and Hank Mobley.
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Alas for the Egg That Is Greece Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2012
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Lateral Thinking movies nebulas non-fiction publications query letters
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Lateral Thinking movies nebulas non-fiction publications query letters
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I'm not sure I see that there's necessarily a trade-off between fiction and non-fiction.
Delia Lloyd: 5 Political Novels Worth Reading Delia Lloyd 2011
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MR: Like any book, especially a popular non-fiction book, you have to keep doing revisions in order to keep up with changes.
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Chatwin told an Australian journalist: "The borderline between fiction and non-fiction is to my mind extremely arbitrary."
The News From Everywhere David Mason 2011
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MR: Like any book, especially a popular non-fiction book, you have to keep doing revisions in order to keep up with changes.
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amacleod03 commented on the word non-fiction
A category in the Dewey Decimal system defined solely by what it is not. Interestingly "Literature" was also included in the non-fiction section, suggesting perhaps that Dewey's notions of truth and fiction were quite complex. However, I suspect that class bias was at work here, since literature appears to reflect what the literatti thought of as being of value and fiction appears to be popular or mass consumption works. While it seems that it is unlikely that Melvil Dewey gave much thought to the question of truth and fictive truth, the insinuation of this concept into our society is an interesting one. It implies that all we can know is what is fictive, but everything else is simply not fictive. A tenative and perhaps temporary categorization at best. This definition by exclusion is echoed in the current phrase "non-white," apparenlty implying non-dominant, and if we account for cultural imperialism, by inference, non-normative. Certainly, there is something in the term "Non-Fiction" which implies that fiction is the norm and all else the variant.
July 11, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word non-fiction
See also nonfiction.
July 11, 2009