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 magaz...
| Main Author: | D'Agata, John, 1974- |
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| Other Authors: | Fingal, Jim. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, N.Y. :
W.W. Norton,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
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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| Physical Description: |
123 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780393340730 (pbk.) : 0393340732 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: |
Jim Fingal is now a software engineer and writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |