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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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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
  • Creative nonfiction > Authorship
  • Essay > Authorship
  • Creative nonfiction > Technique
  • Essay > Technique
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