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“Why, you may ask, should you write serious nonfiction as a story?”

The authors’ answer to this question: “[T]he first job of any book is to get itself read.” Narrative tension, they observe, “remains a highly effective tool for keeping the reader engaged with the material” (179). If that’s so, why don’t … Continue reading

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