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According to Orlean, her writing is “factual reporting…but the technique draws more from the tradition of narrative fiction. In the last 20 or 30 years there’s been a struggle to come up for a name for it. I guess narrative nonfiction is the safest, but I’m not really comfortable with any of them. It’s based in reporting, and then it relies on a strong voice...
...appellate court will look at the transcript to determine where there are any legal infirmities [in the case] as opposed to factual infirmities,” he said, citing as an example a situation where a judge admits graphic autopsy photographs as evidence that are likely to inflame a jury...
...Crimson editor, to defeat Hubert H. Humphrey for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. It is widely seen as the first foray into the politics of cinéma vérité (sometimes termed “direct cinema”), a subset of the documentary genre featuring factual portrayal of the subject’s activities, with minimal interference by the director...
Hitchcock need not be taken at its word, though. At its inception, documentary was a French term referring to any film with a factual subject, including instructional videos or promotional material...
Perhaps the most disappointing aspects of the book are its minor factual errors. Most are merely casual—such as the misspelling of Matt Birk’s last name as Burke or the listing of Dartmouth’s 2003 Ivy football record as 5-2 instead of the correct 2-5 mark. (Those who follow my column on a weekly basis may be wondering how I can reconcile pointing out someone else’s petty errors, while my column is often littered with them. Well, you’re just going to have to figure that...