Book
The lifespan of a fact: John D'Agata and Jim Fingal
W.W. Norton,
2012
Abstract
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, 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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The lifespan of a fact: John D'Agata and Jim Fingal
- Creators
- John D'Agata - University of Iowa, EnglishJim Fingal
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton,; New York, N.Y
- ISBN
- 9780393340730; 0393340732
- Number of pages
- 123 pages
- Alternative title
- Life span of a fact
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2012
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9983992598402771
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