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John D'Agata (Author) John D'Agata is the author of About a Mountain and Halls of Fame, and editor of The Next American Essay and The Lost Origins of the Essay. He teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City where he lives. Jim Fingal (Author) Jim Fingal worked for several years as a fact-checker at The Believer and McSweeney's, where he worked on the titles What Is the What, Surviving Justice, Voices from the Storm, and others. He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he designs software.
A fascinating and dramatic power struggle over the intriguing question of what nonfiction should, or can, be. - Lydia Davis Genius . . . In The Lifespan of a Fact, D'Agata and Fingal turn everything around on us until even our most basic assumptions are left unclear . . . A vivid and reflective meditation on the nature of nonfiction as literary art. - LA Times Less a book than a knock-down, drag-out fight between two tenacious combatants, over questions of truth, belief, history, myth, memory and forgetting. - New York Times Book Review A singularly important meditation on fact and fiction, the imagination and life, fidelity and freedom. Provocative, maddening, and compulsively readable.
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