Lifespan of a Fact
Lifespan of a Fact How negotiable is a fact in nonfiction? That essay--which eventually became the foundation of D'Agata's critically acclaimed About a Mountain--was accepted by another magazine, The…
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Lifespan of a Fact
How negotiable is a fact in nonfiction? 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. In 2003, an essay by John D'Agata was rejected by the magazine that commissioned it due to factual inaccuracies.
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 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.
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