I appreciated a lot of the devices that D'agata used here, especially his use of litany. I felt like it didn't create a harmonious whole, which may have been the point--something to do with the ever-looming threat of nuclear destruction that shadows Las Vegas somehow twinning with the unknowabili...
I totally understand why so many people enjoy this book. It is a very serious topic and it is also about his story. However, I felt that his writing style was very dry and factual. He jumped around a lot and was sometimes hard to follow. I can also see why so many people disliked this book becaus...
The first question one encounters in this book is simply, how best to read it? The Lifespan of a Fact is two things in one - both an essay about the suicide of a young man who leaped from a Las Vegas hotel, and the notes of a fact-checker trying to verify the information in the essay. The essay...