The News as a Novel April 7, 2008

Gordon Burn's new book, Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel, looks at how the news is constructed, and about how it has come to acquire the richness and strangeness of fiction. Tonight he discusses the collapsing barriers between what is real and what is invented with Duncan Campbell, senior correspondent at The Guardian and author of The Paradise Trail.

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