{"product_id":"lifespan-of-a-fact-1","title":"Lifespan of a Fact","description":"Now a Broadway Play.\n\nAn innovative essayist and his fact-checker do battle about the use of truth and the definition of nonfiction.\nHow negotiable is a fact? In 2003, after publishing his book of experimental essays, Halls of Fame, John D’Agata was approached by Harper’s magazine to write an essay for them, one that was eventually rejected due to disagreements related to its fact checking. 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, and beyond the essay’s eventual publication in the magazine, was seven years of arguments, negotiations, and revisions as D’Agata and Fingal struggled to navigate the boundaries of literary nonfiction.\nThis book includes an early draft of D’Agata’s essay, along with D’Agata and Fingal’s extensive discussion around the text. 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. Two-color throughout\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0393340732\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0393340732.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:D'Agata, John|Fingal, Jim\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41499873378362,"sku":"DBV.0393340732.G","price":7.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0393340732-0_d87a121c-b514-4222-825a-85fedba4cb1c.jpg?v=1783043904","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/lifespan-of-a-fact-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}