John D'Agata and Jim Fingal on "The Lifespan of a Fact"

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Author John D'Agata and fact-checker Jim Fingal talk to Anne Strainchamps about the boundaries of literary nonfiction as chronicled in their book, "The Lifespan of a Fact."  D'Agata and Fingal spent seven years going back and forth about factual inaccuracies in an essay D'Agata wrote about a boy who committed suicide in Las Vegas.