Novelists who use real events and figures as grist for their fiction come up against some very real ethical issues
Becoming the story
Writing about her time as a hostage in Afghanistan may have been the hardest thing journalist Mellissa Fung has ever done
What’s in a new name?
Launches gone wild
What with fights, snowstorms, and no-shows, book events can be a rough business, writes Shaun Smith
Tricky questions of tone
Mine, mine, mine
The hardest part of writing a first book is letting go, Kenneth Whyte discovers
The eleventh hour
While writing a book about an ongoing war crimes trial, Michelle Shephard uncovered a last-minute bombshell
Izzy and I
A fascination with power (and a shared love of jazz) led Peter C. Newman to take on a media tycoon
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