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Blog 8- Of accountability in non-fiction

There should'nt be not even an ounce of purported truth in an authors work of non-fiction. The truth in a work of non-fiction should be deterministically true. If not, then the author is accountable for mutating the genre of non-fiction and contorting it into fiction. I mean really, there is nothing like reading a book and sharing emotions between what an author experienced only to find out that it was made up.

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