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The lifespan of a fact / John D'Agata and Jim Fingal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- D'Agata, John, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creative nonfiction--Authorship.
- Creative nonfiction.
- Essay--Authorship.
- Essay.
- Authorship.
- Physical Description:
- 123 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Life span of a fact
- Lifespan of a fact : John D'Agata, author, Jim Final, fact-checker
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton, [2012]
- Summary:
- How negotiable is a fact in nonfiction? In 2003, an essay by John D'Agata was rejected by the magazine that commissioned it due to factual inaccuracies. That essay--which eventually became the foundation of D'Agata's critically acclaimed About a Mountain--was accepted by another magazine, but not before they handed it to their own fact-checker, Jim Fingal. What resulted from that assignment was seven years of arguments, negotiations, and revisions as D'Agata and Fingal struggled to navigate the boundaries of literary nonfiction. What emerges is a brilliant and eye-opening meditation on the relationship between "truth" and "accuracy" and a penetrating conversation about whether it is appropriate for a writer to substitute one for the other"--P. [4] of cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780393340730
- 0393340732
- OCLC:
- 738350223
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