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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, 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."

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Lifespan of a Fact
• Author: Jim Fingal, John D'Agata
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780393340730
• ISBN: 0393340732
• ID: 04604763
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 200 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 177 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. June 2012

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