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The Lifespan of a Fact

John D'Agata Jim Fingal

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  • 128 sidor
  • 2012
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, The Believer, 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. This book reproduces D Agata s essay, along with D Agata and Fingal s extensive correspondence. 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."
  • Författare: John D'Agata, Jim Fingal
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780393340730
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 128
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-06-08
  • Förlag: WW Norton & Co