Read @emmagarman.bsky.social on literature masquerading as primary source. At a time when the word “fiction” carried only negative connotations of deception and mendacity, the contrivance of “real” primary sources reassured readers of a story’s legitimacy. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/a-ki...

I can't recall, Rohan, whether you're an Iris Murdoch fan or not, but I think she's great at this. Eg, in A Word Child, the narrator, Hilary, introduces his lodger: