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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Truth in Fiction
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Hugh Mackay posits the idea that a novelist may come closer to the 'ideal of truth telling' than a social researcher. Because fiction 'springs directly from my own imagination, fed by my own experience' says Mackay, 'I'm free to tell it exactly as it occurs to me. My social analysis is an educated attempt to capture others' reality; the novels draw on my own personal reality.'

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Alternative title: Making Up the Truth
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sydney Morning Herald 25-26 July 2009 Z1608065 2009 newspaper issue 2009 pg. 16-17 Section: Spectrum
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Age 25 July 2009 Z1608180 2009 newspaper issue 2009 pg. 16-17 Section: A2
    Note: With title: Making Up the Truth
Last amended 20 Aug 2009 11:24:31
16-17 Spectrum Truth in Fictionsmall AustLit logo The Sydney Morning Herald
16-17 A2 Truth in Fictionsmall AustLit logo The Age
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