What’s a Story?: On Fiction and Lies

What’s a Story?: On Fiction and Lies

What’s a story? In response to that question, many of us might think of a tale with a beginning, middle and an end, or maybe a literary classic of short fiction like Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” or Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl.”

But stories exist beyond the page. They’re part of our everyday repertoire for coping with existence.

One way to define the term “story” is any attempt—written, told, or perhaps most commonly and powerfully, thought—to impose a narrative on life.

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