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[Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)] - back and forth between D'Agata and fact-checker Jim Fingal over D'Agata's account of the suicide of a 16-year-old boy, Levi Presley, who jumped from a Las Vegas hotel in The book reveals—and D'Agata freely admits—that he fiddled with facts for
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[New York Times] - “On the same day in Las Vegas when 16-year-old Levi Presley jumped from the observation deck of the foot-high tower of the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino, lap dancing was temporarily banned by the city in 34 licensed strip clubs in Vegas
'The Lifespan of a Fact,' by John D'Agata and Jim Fingal
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[New York Times] - The essay, finally published in and threaded into D'Agata's book “About a Mountain,” tells the story of a boy named Levi Presley who in jumped to his death from the observation deck of the Stratosphere Hotel in Las Vegas.
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[Los Angeles Times (blog)] - Central to the discussion is an essay that D'Agata wrote about the suicide of 16-year-old Levi Presley, who jumped from the tower observation deck of Las Vegas' Stratosphere hotel in The piece was commissioned by Harper's, then rejected and
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