Lifespan Of A Fact

Author: John D'Agata

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  • : $30.00 AUD
  • : 9780393340730
  • : WW Norton & Co
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  • : June 2012
  • : 232mm X 177mm X 9mm
  • : United States
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  • : Paperback
  • : 0212
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  • : English
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Description

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."

Reviews

If you like compelling, emotional stories set in wild, business-friendly locales, this book delivers. --Daniel Roberts"

Author description

John D'Agata is the author of About a Mountain, Halls of Fame and editor of The Next American Essay and The Lost Origins of the Essay. He teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where he lives. Jim Fingal is now a software engineer and writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts.