The Lifespan of a Fact

D'Agata, John; Fingal, Jim

ISBN 10: 0393340732 ISBN 13: 9780393340730

Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2012

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If you like compelling, emotional stories set in wild, business-friendly locales, this book delivers. --Daniel Roberts"

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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."

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• Verlag: W W NORTON & CO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0393340732
• ISBN 13: 9780393340730
• Einband: Rústica
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 123