Re: Fiction or non-fiction?
A narrative can be good, whether the events narrated are real or not. I, for one, have found plenty of inspiration from non-fiction reading.... and such little bits of fiction as I have enjoyed have been the ones that created an exceptionally strong sense of "this really could have happened", not the ones which were ridiculously fanciful.
It's a shame to have to make all-or-nothing decisions. I would like to see about 90% of the world's fiction disappear, and about 90% of the world's nonfiction remain.
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