In the dedication of his book, It, and in his comments to the National Book Foundation crowd, Stephen King notes that "fiction is the truth inside the lie." In On Writing, he opines that "the job of fiction is to find the truth inside the story's web of lies." King is talking about using honesty in the language you select and the actions and ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was having an email conversation with a friend who teaches English at a community college down south. She welcomed a bunch of kids to Intro to Literature, and decided to open her class by saying "So what is fiction?" and someone in the class answered "B.S.!" In her first email, though, all she said to me was that she had been "off ( Read more... )