"Story Truth" vs. "Factual Truth"
"In a true war story, nothing is absolutely true." -Tim O'Brien, from The Things They Carried
Author Tim O’Brien, winner of the National Book Award for his novel “Going After Cacciato”, views “story truth” vs. “factual truth” as two distinctly different experiences, and suggest that “story truth” can be truer-feeling than truth itself.
In his story "Good…
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