| Description |
123 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
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"--Page 4 of cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Creative nonfiction -- Authorship
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Essay -- Authorship
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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nonfiction
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Fiction.
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| Author |
Fingal, Jim
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| LC no. |
2011042637 |
| ISBN |
9780393340730 |
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0393340732 |
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