John D'Agata
John D'Agata is the author of "Halls of Fame," "About a Mountain," 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.
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John D'Agata is the author of "Halls of Fame," "About a Mountain," 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.
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I think it was a 2012 "book a day" calendar that had this, and the blurb sounded interesting. The book was certainly different, but I came away not liking either of these guys.This is an article, and a conversation about that article between the author and the magazine-hired fact checker. Both are h...
I've done fact-checking. Working with D'Agata is apparently impossible.
Instead of watching the Oscars last night, I picked up this longform essay, an often beautiful, obsessive examination of the plans to bury nuclear waste in Yucca mountain, outside Las Vegas.*Of course, it's not really about the mountain. Aboutness is a problem interrogated in the book, which emerge...
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