The Lifespan of a Fact (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Lifespan of a Fact Named a top 10 Best Book of 2012 by Slate.comAn innovative essayist and his fact-checker do battle about the use of truth and the definition of nonfiction.
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 08 June 2012
- Format: Paperback 123 pages
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- Categories: Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides | Writing & Editing Guides | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
- ISBN 13: 9780393340730 ISBN 10: 0393340732
- Sales rank: 72,932
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Full description for The Lifespan of a Fact
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.
