novel = nonfiction

[Jonathan Lighter]

In an interview with a Blackhawk helicopter pilot, the Fox News anchor has referred to Mark Bowden's journalistic account of the Mogadishu battle as "_Blackhawk Down_, that novel that was made into a movie."

  It's hard to imagine that he really believes the book to be fiction.  Evidently "novel" just sounds smarter (to some people) than "book."

  JL


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