TY  - BOOK
AU  - D'Agata,John
AU  - Fingal,Jim
TI  - The lifespan of a fact
SN  - 0393340732 (pbk.)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Essay
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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
ER  -