Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Fiction--who needs it? Not when real life is so gripping, so bizarre, so very real. TV went the reality route long ago; now movie audiences are finding that Superman is no match for Grizzly Man. Some gifted directors (Martin Scorsese, Michael Apted, Werner Herzog) commute easily between fiction films and documentaries. They know that good stories don't always come from a writer's imagination. JT Petty makes horror movies for a living. (He also writes video games and children's books.) But he was haunted by a real story from his youth: a neighbor had been stalking...
...course, like any idealized fiction, FKB was a fantasy. Maybe more than most, since in this neighborhood we learned almost nothing about the neighbors. The show got along without supporting characters in the families next door or across the street. The Andersons solved their little dilemmas with no outside help. Their home might have been some enclosed universe in a Twilight Zone episode. What happened at 607 stayed...
...Publishers are finding it increasingly difficult to get publicity for new novels, even those by media-friendly writers. You'll rarely find novelists on network or even cable TV, and radio outlets also favor non-fiction. Beyond print ads, most publicity for fiction comes from book tours and soliciting reviews or author profiles, but most newspapers have cut back on space devoted to High Lit. Ironically, although Pynchon's penchant for privacy may have its origins in his personal philosophy, it's also been a great hook for journalists to cover (or uncover) him over the years...
Ganeshananthan, whose second book is still in progress, also said that her journalistic background helped her in her first foray into fiction...
...even with a fiction deal inked, Ganeshananthan isn’t letting her journalistic talents go to waste. She’s now in her first year at the Columbia University Graduate Journalism School...