What do you think about people who take non-fiction experiences and use that in a more creative way?
CD Wright interviewed women from three maximum security prisons in Louisiana and wrote the book One Big Self based from these interviews with inmates.
Most of the content and language is pulled directly from the mouths of these interviews. She used recording tools and took notes during this whole process, the way a journalist would.
Does this still count as non-fiction? I feel that it's recounting experience in a journalistic and experimentally poetic way.
I'd answer by asking loads of questions: did the writer conflate the interviews/personalities? If so, that, to me, crosses a line. The rest sounds straight up. Very good discussion topic for class—bring it up, if you don't mind.
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