Word: factualism
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...movies most of you haven?t seen - are as meticulous and obsessive as Talmudists or sabermetricians. You pore over past winners for clues to this year?s. You know that the trick is to find the leading indicators, the stats that transcend the conventional wisdom to become the actual, factual wisdom...
...there's no corresponding willingness on the part of readers to give up the quirky characters and vivid details and sexy twists and pleasing, rounded endings they're used to in fiction. To get those effects in nonfiction, writers sometimes cut corners--the factual kind. "If you want to have something that can be sold as based on a true story," Coffey says, "you're going to run into guys like James Frey who are embellishing with techniques that are considered a gift in fiction writing but apparently a sin in a memoir...
...officers as special State police officers or deputy sheriffs vests them with broad police powers unique to public law enforcement agencies and, therefore, the HUPD is subject to the mandates of the public records law. Further, the Crimson asserts that it should be given the opportunity to develop a factual record to explore the scope of the authority exercised by HUPD officers and to demonstrate that such individuals are "officer[s] or employee[s]" of public entities under G.L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth. Because, as acknowledged by the Crimson, this case is one of statutory interpretation, the development...
...Frey's second line of defense is a little more formidable. As he put it on Larry King, "the emotional truth is there." In other words, whatever the nitty-gritty bookkeepers turn up, his story has an empathic force, a psychological power, that makes the actual factual status of his writing kind of moot, and renders trivial the question of where it should be shelved in the bookstore...
...that defense simply invites the question, if it's not factual, why didn't Frey publish A Million Little Pieces as fiction? By claiming that his story was literally true, Frey endowed it with a heightened immediacy and an emotional force that it lacked as a novel-in effect, he borrowed a little extra emotional oomph from his trusting readers, who treated his narrative as 100% lived experience, real dues paid by a real person. That's not trivial. If Frey wasn't entitled to that immediacy and that force-if he stole that oomph rather than borrowed it-well...