In Fact by Lee Gutkind
If In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction is, in fact, the best of creative non-fiction, then creative non-fiction doesn’t have much to offer. Some of the stories were good but many weren’t particularly, and one about Haiti was nearly unreadable unless you happen to know an awful lot about Haiti already. Which perhaps is the problem in general. Non-fiction is more interesting when it’s by or about someone or something you know, when you can put yourself into the place of the narrator or into the scene being described. Somehow most of the stories in this book failed to pull me into them and creative non-fiction that doesn’t pull you in is just non-fiction.