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Baby Reindeer Is a True Story—But Whose True Story?
Baby Reindeer Is a True Story—But Whose True Story?
Richard Gadd as Donny Dunn in Baby Reindeer. (Netflix)
If you turn your trauma into the most talked-about show on Netflix—are you still a victim?
By Kat Rosenfield
05.18.24 — Culture and Ideas
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Baby Reindeer Is a True Story—But Whose True Story?

This article contains spoilers.

Nora Ephron’s famous line, “Everything is copy” has often struck me less as advice for writers than permission to indulge one of our baser instincts: to search for the good story inside every bad experience. The classic journalist’s response to tragedy, so common it’s practically a cliché, is to reach for a pen—as if grief…

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Kat Rosenfield

Kat Rosenfield is a culture writer at The Free Press and author of five novels, including the Edgar-nominated No One Will Miss Her. Prior to joining The Free Press, she was a reporter at MTV News and a columnist at UnHerd, where she wrote about American culture and politics. Her work has also appeared in Vulture, Playboy, The Boston Globe, and Reason, among others.

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