@article{448549,
      author = {D'Agata, John, and Fingal, Jim.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/448549},
      title = {The lifespan of a fact /},
      publisher = {W.W. Norton,},
      abstract = {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.},
      recid = {448549},
      pages = {123 p. ;},
      address = {New York, N.Y. :},
      year = {2012},
}