Lifespan of A Fact

Dates: November 16, 17, 18 & 20 at 7:30 PM, November 19 at 2:00 PM.
Where: The Norman Roberts Lab Theatre in Kopecek Hall
Cost: Free with valid NCC Id [we recommend a canned good donation for the H.O.P.E. Food Bank] or $5.00 without an ID.
you can find out more by calling our box office: 484.484.3412 or going to our website http://www.ncctix.org

Jim Fingal is a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. John D’Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy—an essay that could save the magazine from collapse. When Jim is assigned to fact check D’Agata’s essay, the two come head to head in a comedic yet gripping battle over facts versus truth. 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.” “The Lifespan of a Fact might be the most improbably entertaining book ever published.”