TY  - BOOK
AB  - 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.
AU  - D'Agata, John,
AU  - Fingal, Jim.
CN  - PN145
CN  - PN145
CY  - New York, N.Y. :
DA  - c2012.
ET  - 1st ed.
ID  - 448549
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - Essay
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.
PB  - W.W. Norton,
PP  - New York, N.Y. :
PY  - c2012.
SN  - 9780393340730 (pbk.)
SN  - 0393340732 (pbk.)
T1  - The lifespan of a fact /
TI  - The lifespan of a fact /
ER  -