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Presenting: My friend, the Oral Narrative
Put plainly, an oral narrative tells a story entirely through bytes and quotes and weaves them seamlessly into a narrative (often without explicit authorial mediation/intervention), arranged by chronology, theme, or other narrative scheme. My favorite example is out-of-print (Savage Grace) but seeing as Killer Films will soon come out with Savage Grace (the movie), look for the page-turner at your local bookstore. Many credit George Plimpton with creating the genre. To that end, former Paris Review editors are writing an Oral Biography of Plimpton, in the very genre he defined.
Some examples: