Tell Them a Story: Using Narrative Nonfiction in Your Everyday Writing

What does storytelling-narrative-have to do with reporting-nonfiction? Everything.

In 1965, Capote published In Cold Blood, an account of a series of ghastly murders in the late '50s. His book became a bestseller, marked by factual accuracy shared through the transporting power of fictional prose. He called it a "nonfiction novel," and some have called it a literary experiment that "opened the way for a new kind of literature." See it as a writer's version of crosspollination, maybe even a c...