The Magic of Novels Taking Us to Places We’ve Already Lived In

When the Venn diagram of fiction and non-fiction works, it’s alchemy; but can you trust a story that gets it wrong?

Bob Merckel
Counter Arts
Published in
5 min readFeb 24

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A houseboat along Regent’s Canal in London
Photo by Call Me Fred on Unsplash

We were ambling alongside Regent’s Canal one afternoon, heading towards Little Venice. The conversation flowed into talking about what it would be like to live on the…

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Bob Merckel
Counter Arts

Editor: Age of Empathy, The Memoirist | English teacher/language consultant in Barcelona and Provincetown.