The Question of Nonfiction

From James Frey to Mike Daisey the issue of truth in nonfiction continues to be a source of angst, perturbation, inquiry, fun, argument, and discussion.

Here, on the Los Angeles Review of Books' sparkling new website, a few authors have a quick say, in a series of LARB One-Minute Films.  Some find the argument that fidelity to fact is the essence of nonfiction, including the memoir, to be an impossible and perhaps uninteresting goal; some find our culture's inability to agree on the solidity of fact to be a sign of the apocalypse.