K Chess on the Importance Nested Narratives February 4, 2021 As a reader, I’ve always loved the trickiness of a story within a story. Sometimes excerpts from fictional works make up the bulk of the narrative, like The Princess Bride, presented by author William Goldman as a book once read to him by his father, which he has rediscovered and is reproducing with minor edits and commentary. Sometimes, the inner narrative is only ever described or sought by the characters of the outer work. These works exist in relation to the fictional people who had a hand in their making. In Lauren Groff’s