"last stitch effort"

[Sam Clements]

Using NewspaperArchive, and searching the 1966-70 period, it was EXTREMELY
common to read stories about Capote's book(In Cold Blood) being called a
"non-fiction novel."  Whether Capote himself originate that term, I don't
know.

Just a short leap to "fiction novel" from there.

Sam Clements


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From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
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Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: "last stitch effort"


> OED offers a single quote, from an 1883 magazine.  I rest my case.
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> JL
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> "Baker, John" <JMB at STRADLEY.COM> wrote:
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> In Webster's Collegiate, American Heritage, Century Dictionary . . . .
What's wrong with assumably?
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> John Baker
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> Brace yourself. Within the past year or so I've also seen "assumably."
> JL
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