Ingredients

What are the elements of a great nonfiction story?

Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter says there are four:

"At Vanity Fair, our writers continue to do what they've always done, ferreting out everything there is to know about a given subject and then pulling it all together in a gripping, satisfying narrative. A good Vanity Fair story should have at least a couple of the following elements: access, narrative arc, friction and disclosure. A great one has at least three and a truly great one has all four."

Access. Narrative Arc. Friction. Disclosure.

Is he right?

Are there others?