The lifespan of a fact
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Published
New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton, [2012].
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Book
Edition
1st ed.
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123 pages ; 24 cm
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Published
New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton, [2012].
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
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.
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