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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2012]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 123 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780393340730 (pbk.) : 0393340732 (pbk.) |