Purchase
W. W. Norton
March 2012
On Sale: February 27, 2012
128 pages
ISBN: 0393340732
EAN: 9780393340730
Paperback
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction
An innovative essayist and his fact-checker do
battle about the use of truth and the definition of
nonfiction. 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.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2024 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy