As an intern at the Believer in 2005, Jim Fingal was assigned to fact-check John D’Agata’s article on the 2002 suicide of Las Vegas teenager Levi Presley. The article appeared in 2010, and the factchecking process forms the basis of the book The Lifespan of a Fact.
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- Artist attracts the attention of Cultural Guardian
- Cultural Guardian champions the work and spreads it to many, many people
- Artist, it turns out, has not been entirely forthcoming about the nature of their work
- Cultural Guardian learns that the work was not what they thought it was
- Artist gets trotted out for a day of reckoning
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Situational Truth
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Little white lines
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It’s Art
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