A good nonfiction novel can have one of two effects: it pulls you into the material and holds you there until the end; or, it has a lot of excessive information with overly long paragraphs that run on for pages. (happyselfpublishing.com)
America's fascination with true crime storytelling has existed for quite some time, with Truman Capote noting in the 1960s that he'd created a new art form (the «nonfiction novel») with In Cold Blood, his best - selling account of the gruesome murder of a Kansas family. (fortune.com)
Ross, as current New Yorker editor David Remnick reminds us in the foreword, virtually invented the «nonfiction novel,» long before Truman Capote or Norman Mailer. (bookpage.com)