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1. John D’Agata and Jim Fingal Address the Facts
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By: By JOHN WILLIAMS, on 4/19/2012
Blog: Schiel & Denver Book Publishers Blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  Heidi Julavits, Jim Fingal, John D’Agata, The Lifespan of a Fact, Books, Add a tag

The authors of "The Lifespan of a Fact" discussed the controversial book at McNally Jackson Books on Wednesday night.

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2. Book Review Podcast: Fact, Fiction and In Between
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By: By JOHN WILLIAMS, on 2/24/2012
Blog: Schiel & Denver Book Publishers Blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  Jennifer McDonald, john leland, Books, Book Review Podcast, Jim Fingal, John D’Agata, Add a tag

Jennifer B. McDonald talks about "The Lifespan of a Fact," in which the essayist John D'Agata wrestles with a fact checker over questions of truth, beauty and accuracy.

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3. Should Essays Be Fact-Checked?
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By: Jason Boog, on 2/2/2012
Blog: Galley Cat (Mediabistro) (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  Writer Resources, Jim Fingal, John D’Agata, Add a tag

This month, Harper’s Magazine excerpted a portion of The Lifespan of a Fact, a book reproducing email debates between John D’Agata and Believer fact-checker Jim Fingal.

As Fingal struggled to fact-check D’Agata’s “What Happens There” essay for The Believer, the author made passionate arguments about the nature of facts in essays. What do you think–should essay writers be able conflate events or conduct casual interviews?

Here is one argument from D’Agata: “I don’t think readers will care whether the events that I’m discussing happened on the same day, a few days apart, or a few months apart. What most readers will care about, I think, is the meaning that’s suggested in the confluence of these events—no matter how far apart they occurred. The facts that are being employed here aren’t meant to function baldly as ‘facts.’ Nobody is going to read this, in other words, in order to get a survey of the demographics of Las Vegas or what’s scheduled on the community calendar. Readers can get that kind of information elsewhere.”

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