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The Lifespan of a Fact: Essayist John D’Agata defends his right to fudge the truth. - Slate Magazine
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“Story-truth,” Tim O’Brien wrote, “is truer sometimes than happening-truth.” He wrote that in a story called “Good Form,” in his collection The Things They Carried, a hybrid of memoir and fiction that was a touchstone for a generation of writers looking for new ways to tell stories. That book was...
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"I don't get to decide which facts are stupid." J. D'Agata, J. Fingal and I hash out truth, lies & LIFESPAN OF A FACT http://t.co/MbAWrLM4
An essayist and his fact-checker go to battle over the line between true and false http://t.co/wR7sQoHz
Uh-oh someone found an error in my LIFESPAN essay and now I have a correction: "Actually, it has 31 falsehoods." http://t.co/MbAWrLM4
The arguments and meta adventure of the (kind of factual) Lifespan of a Fact are riveting. http://t.co/aiigcd8d good place to start
This piece on "The Lifespan of a Fact" by @dankois is remarkable and well worth your time
Fiction is hard. Non-fiction is hard. Non-fictionish is easy, like using spackle when you face a hole
Has everyone already read the Lifespan of a Fact excerpt & reviews? Good http://t.co/Pjivnz77 + http://t.co/NkPsB64K http://t.co/quku4fEd
I liked most of this ("Facts Are Stupid"), but the end frustrated me: http://t.co/sLoe4NFv
Interesting contrast: ‘The Lifespan of a Fact,’ by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal @nytimes http://t.co/Tb1pAkDP @Slate http://t.co/jrpNDsFG
"Story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth": questione antica, brillantemente affrontata: http://t.co/7sH3dP01
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Here it is. It's pretty timely if you're thinking about the TAL and Daisy thing
Re-posting this Lifespan of a Fact spin-out in the wake of the Mike Daisy/This American Life retraction http://t.co/aiigcd8d
Re-teaching the recently untaught teachable moment? http://t.co/ycfeHltt
see also: http://t.co/ro6K7xHi
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@misterjayem Looks like an essayist thinking what they do is the same as what a journalist does. Reminds me of this: http://t.co/RsHz0NgX
The arguments and meta adventure of the (kind of factual) Lifespan of a Fact are riveting. http://t.co/aiigcd8d good place to start
The arguments and meta adventure of the (kind of factual) Lifespan of a Fact are riveting. http://t.co/aiigcd8d good place to start
What role should facts play in stories? http://t.co/hrHIXpGk See also: http://t.co/CD7cOXPa
This is a brilliant piece from @dankois for the new @SlateBooks about the relative importance of facts and art