Most of What Follows is True: Places Imagined and Real

Michael Crummey

Most of What Follows is True: Places Imagined and Real
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Country
Canada
Published
21 February 2019
Pages
72
ISBN
9781772124576

Most of What Follows is True: Places Imagined and Real

Michael Crummey

In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to dance between them is a murky business.

In Most of What Follows Is True, Michael Crummey examines the complex relationship between fact and fiction, between the real world and the stories we tell to explain it. Drawing on his own experience appropriating historical characters to fictional ends, he brings forward important questions about how writers use history and real-life figures to animate fictional stories. Is there a limit to the liberties a writer can take? Is there a point at which a fictionalized history becomes a false history? What responsibilities do writers have to their readers, and to the historical and cultural materials they exploit as sources? Crummey offers thoughtful, witty views on the deep and timely conversation around appropriation.

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