Narrative non-fiction claims rest on a quantifiable documentary record, not impressions.

Evidence

I relied on the official record—primarily 196 volumes of sworn deposition testimony, seventy-eight days of trial testimony, and fifty-seven volumes of preand post-trial hearings—as well as my own interviews to reconstruct events that I myself did not witness. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 3170

Categorization

• SHARE: The specific counts — 196 depositions, 78 trial days, 57 hearing volumes — are catnip for anyone who argues about how reported books get made.