Karl Whitney: On true stories: If reality is a show, then we want our narrator to win

Consider the things that happen in our lives: Messy and often incoherent incidents best understood in the rearview mirror, if we can understand them at all.

Then consider what we read about life, how it’s presented to us in books.

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