The Lifespan of a Fact: Now a Broadway Play

By: John D'Agata and Jim Fingal

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Synopsis: NOW A BROADWAY PLAY STARRING DANIEL RADCLIFFE'Provocative, maddening and compulsively readable' Maggie NelsonIn 2003, American essayist John D'Agata wrote a piece for Harper's about Las Vegas's alarmingly high suicide rate, after a sixteen-year-old boy had thrown himself from the top of the Stratosphere Tower.The article he delivered, 'What Happens There', was rejected by the magazine for inaccuracies. But it was soon picked up by another, who assigned it a fact checker: their fresh-faced intern, and recent Harvard graduate, 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.This book includes an early draft of D'Agata's essay, along with D'Agata and Fingal's extensive discussion around the text. The Lifespan of a Fact 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.'A fascinating and dramatic power struggle over the intriguing question of what nonfiction should, or can, be' Lydia Davis

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781529404630
Related ISBNs:: 9781529404623
Publisher:: Quercus
Date of Addition:: 06/21/21
Copyrighted By:: John D’Agata and Jim Fingal
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Psychology, Social Studies, Language Arts, Humor, Communication
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