The lifespan of a fact / John D'Agata and Jim Fingal.
By: D'Agata, John.
Contributor(s): Fingal, Jim.
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BookPublisher: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton, c2012Edition: 1st ed.Description: 123 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780393340730 (pbk.) :; 0393340732 (pbk.).Other title: Life span of a fact | Lifespan of a fact : John D'Agata, author, Jim Final, fact-checker [Cover title].Subject(s): Creative nonfiction -- Authorship | Essay -- AuthorshipDDC classification: 808.02 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.
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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.
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