#  "The Origins of Creativity" by Louis Menand  

 





April 21, 2023

 

 

 What is “creative nonfiction,” exactly? Isn’t the term an oxymoron? Creative writers—playwrights, poets, novelists—are people who make stuff up. Which means that the basic definition of “nonfiction writer” is a writer who doesn’t make stuff up, or is not supposed to make stuff up. If nonfiction writers are “creative” in the sense that poets and novelists are creative, if what they write is partly make-believe, are they still writing nonfiction?  
  
Read more from *The New Yorker* [here](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/the-cult-of-creativity-samuel-weil-franklin-book-review).



 

 

 



 

 

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