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What makes for a great narrative non-fiction book? I have this belief that there are two kinds of stories. Okay, there are big stories that are about something very small, like yourself. Right? So, for example, An Inconvenient Truth is a huge story about climate change that is completely overwhelming to to figure out like, well, where's my part in this? But it makes it you see, oh, if I don't drive a Range Rover and if I don't use plastic bags and if I'm if I, you know, try to do this, this, and this, I can have an impact on this big story.
And then there are small stories about something much bigger. So, for example, Tiger King on Netflix was a small story about four people or five people in this world to collect exotic cats. And really, it's about the American dream and business and the desire for fame. It's either a big story about something small or a small story about something big. There is no story in the middle. They exist, but they're [ __ ] terrible. It's like a half-ass of one or the other. And I think that you have to really put the work in to figure out which story it is.