Episode 45: Hilary Plum -- Approaching Fact in Fiction

Published: June 10, 2014, 4 p.m.

b'This lecture will explore recent moments and new possibilities in the age-old relationship between nonfiction and fiction. We\\u2019ll discuss contemporary works of fiction built around documentary material: photographs, testimony, reportage. Through an examination of how fiction frames, interacts with, and creates and resolves tension with its documentary sources, we\\u2019ll glimpse just what\\u2019s happening today at the border where fiction and nonfiction meet.'