The complicated backstory of the play The Lifespan of a Fact, now in its local premiere at TimeLine, reads like a series of "begats" out of the book of Genesis. Ready? Here goes. John D'Agata wrote an essay (not an article, as he stridently insists in the play) for Harper's in 2003 about the 2002 […] The post <i>The Lifespan of a Fact</i> tackles truthiness appeared first on Chicago Reader.