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The lifespan of a fact / John D'Agata and Jim Fingal.
- Title
- The lifespan of a fact / John D'Agata and Jim Fingal.
- Author
- D'Agata, John, 1974-
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton, c2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | PN145 .D25 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Fingal, Jim
- Description
- 123 p.; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Life span of a fact
- Lifespan of a fact : John D'Agata, author, Jim Fingal, fact-checker
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fictional Work
- Fiction
- Romans.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780393340730 (pbk.)
- 0393340732 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2011042637
- OCLC
- 738350223
- SCSB-10961527
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library