Adapting her recent talk for the D.C. Science Writers Association, Ann Finkbeiner writes about her misgivings over the use of fiction-writing techniques in nonfiction about science, especially when it comes to eliding facts to help a story: "Nonfiction arranges facts into a story, it finds the story in the facts. Readers are not in it for evocation of someone else’s world. They’re in it for the truth about the world we all must share, for understanding those facts."
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