It's not a true story. The book, which focuses on struggling writers a la an earlier explanation of mine in this thread, is broken into chapters. Each chapter starts with a few pages that describe the action inside the "writer's retreat" and what is happening to our characters. Then the chapter has a poem written about one of the characters in the retreat. This is followed by a short story written by that same focal character. Save for the two people who run the retreat, every character is known only by a nickname. The character in this short story is known to readers only as "Saint Gut-Free" and for good reason.