Threshold Times

Threshold Times

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Threshold Times
Stranger than Fiction

Stranger than Fiction

A writing retreat exploring the relationship between truth and lies in any genre

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Karen Hering
May 09, 2024
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Every story is a meeting point between truth and lies, fact and fiction, memory and imagination. Or, as Timothy O’Brien put it, “story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.” In a time when the difference between truth and lies is especially important, what are the writer’s responsibilities and options for sharing and illuminating truth?

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