Book Review: The Story is True

I recently read the book The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories by Bruce Jackson. I read it because I thought it might be a good creative writing resource for my PhD. It turned out not to be a good resource for creative writing in general. It is however valuable if you are curious as to why people tell stories or the truthfulness of stories. The following line from The Story is True is a good summary of the book:

“Stories are the way we domesticate the world’s disorder. Facts are incidental.”