How Fiction Kills: Disarming Violence With Truth, And Why It Matters
6 min readDec 14, 2017
“You can’t speak truth to power, if the power speaks truth by definition.” — Michael Lynch
I sometimes sit in coffee shops and write because I want to feel like an authentic New York writer. That is my truth, as ugly and clichéd as it may sound to readily admit and put down on paper. I want the legitimacy that comes with the portrayal of being…