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Fiction as Fibbing: Benjamin Taylor
Posted: November 25, 2008
Tags: Yusef Komunyakaa, Leo Szilard, Eudora Welty, John Updike, Baader-Meinhoff
“It’s about fifty percent based on certain things I know from real life, and about fifty percent made up out of nothing, just out of daydreaming. I think that’s the way it should be. This is not memoir, this is not autobiography, this is not confession. It’s fibbing. It’s making things up.”
