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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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A fascinating and dramatic power struggle over the intriguing question of what nonfiction should, or can, be.--Lydia Davis
An enraging, fascinating, singular book.
A whip-smart, mordantly funny, thought-provoking rumination on journalistic responsibility and literary license.
Less a book than a knock-down, drag-out fight between two tenacious combatants over questions of truth, belief, history, myth, memory and forgetting.--Jennifer McDonald
The Lifespan of a Fact might be the most improbably entertaining book ever published.
The Lifespan of a Fact is remarkable not only as an intellectual adventure, but for its portrayal of the search for these kinds of truths as a conversation. It is a high-stakes exercise not of surety but of anxiety...open to the production of wonder, but equally to that of doubt, frustration, and betrayal.
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An enraging, fascinating, singular book.
A whip-smart, mordantly funny, thought-provoking rumination on journalistic responsibility and literary license.
Less a book than a knock-down, drag-out fight between two tenacious combatants over questions of truth, belief, history, myth, memory and forgetting.--Jennifer McDonald
The Lifespan of a Fact might be the most improbably entertaining book ever published.
The Lifespan of a Fact is remarkable not only as an intellectual adventure, but for its portrayal of the search for these kinds of truths as a conversation. It is a high-stakes exercise not of surety but of anxiety...open to the production of wonder, but equally to that of doubt, frustration, and betrayal.
John D'Agata is the author of About a Mountain, Halls of Fame, and editor of The Next American Essay and The Lost Origins of the Essay. He teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where he lives.
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