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001 2011042637
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008 111031s2012 nyu b 000 0 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn738350223
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050 00 $aPN145$b.D25 2012
082 00 $a808.02$223
100 1 $aD'Agata, John,$d1974-
245 14 $aThe lifespan of a fact /$cJohn D'Agata and Jim Fingal.
246 3 $aLife span of a fact
246 14 $aLifespan of a fact :$bJohn D'Agata, author, Jim Final, fact-checker
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bW.W. Norton,$cc2012.
300 $a123 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aHow 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.
650 0 $aCreative nonfiction$xAuthorship.
650 0 $aEssay$xAuthorship.
700 1 $aFingal, Jim.