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008			111031s2012 nyu b 000 0 eng
010			_a 2011042637
016	7		_a016019578 _2Uk
020			_a9780393340730 (pbk.) : _c$17.95
020			_a0393340732 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn738350223
050	0	0	_aPN145 _b.D25 2012
082	0	0	_a808.02 _223
100	1		_aD'Agata, John, _d1974-
245	1	4	_aThe lifespan of a fact / _cJohn D'Agata and Jim Fingal.
246	3		_aLife span of a fact
246	1	4	_aLifespan of a fact : _bJohn D'Agata, author, Jim Final, fact-checker
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York, N.Y. : _bW.W. Norton, _cc2012.
300			_a123 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aHow 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.
650		0	_aCreative nonfiction _xAuthorship.
650		0	_aEssay _xAuthorship.
700	1		_aFingal, Jim.
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942			_2ddc _cNFIC _n0
955			_brg14 2011-10-31 _irg14 2011-10-31 to CIP _axe05 2012-07-13 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.
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