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Sometimes, it all gets to be too much.1 comment

TallulahBankhead wrote 7 months ago: Paying attention to the online world is getting to me.  It’s not making me sad or crazy, but i … more →

Tags: Television, Movies, Politics, Books, Music, Dating, News, Bravo, The Millionaire Matchmaker

Note to Oprah - Stop Picking Nonfiction1 comment

R.W. Ridley wrote 12 months ago: An Apple a Day Makes for a Great Fake Memoir! I’m not blaming Oprah for endorsing authors who … more →

Tags: Authors & Writing, My Books., Oprah, Oprah's Book Club, Book Clubs, fake memoirs, herman rosenblat, james frey, A million little pieces

Bonehead Moves of 2008, Part II

TallulahBankhead wrote 1 year ago: What’s a bonehead move? Poor decision making by people who should know better.  Here is part 2 … more →

Tags: Movies, Politics, Books, Heath Ledger, Eliot Spitzer, Silda Spitzer, Jesse Jackson, Fox News, Joe the plumber

Cardinal Column #9: Falsified Memoirs

lesismore wrote 1 year ago: (Editor’s note: My first column of 2006, this saw the start of a much preferred direction in m … more →

Tags: Literature Columns, falsified memoirs, james frey, A million little pieces, JT LeRoy, Nasdijj, Misha Defonseca, Ishmael Beah

Literary sensation Margaret B. Jones immortalized on YouTube1 comment

Siddiq Bello wrote 1 year ago: Hip Hop veteran and habitual scowler, Harry Allen, has an “exclusive” video of literary … more →

Tags: Humor, Entertainment, Book Reviews, Conjecture, A-List Bloggers, Margaret B. Jones, pseudo-memoirs, literary excellence, harry allen

Keeping up with Ms. Jones

B. D. wrote 1 year ago: Ah, the circles of coincidence. Perhaps I should not be so easily impressed. It’s a small worl … more →

Tags: Miscellany, Margaret B. Jones, Misha Defonseca, Colson Whitehead, New York Magazine

...But There Is An 'I' In Stories

scheity wrote 1 year ago: “Please look. Can you see us?” Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius  Of … more →

Tags: Culture, memoir, thom wolfe, Me Generation, james frey, Margaret B. Jones, A million little pieces, Bloods, crips

On Truth in Memoir: Remembrance and Amnesia3 comments

brevity wrote 1 year ago: (Another note from Gary Presley, author of the Brevity essay Proselegy and Coda) Funny things happen … more →

Tags: Creative Nonfiction, memoir, Nonfiction Books, Teaching Resources, Gary Presley, truth in memoir

So, What Exactly Are They Smoking in Eugene, Oregon?10 comments

brevity wrote 1 year ago: Or, Why You Should Never, Ever Send Your Children to School in Oregon. FROM AN EXCELLENT OPINION PIE … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Creative Nonfiction, memoir, Teaching Resources, Frey, Lane Community College, Linda S. Clare, "Love and Consequences", memoir-fraud

Randomness...

TallulahBankhead wrote 1 year ago: Playwright Keith Josef Adkins asks Tyler Perry why? (The Root) AP discovers the Lebron Vogue cover c … more →

Tags: Tyler perry, hillary clinton, Lebron James, Vogue, Keith Josef Adkins, The Root, AP, Tiger Woods, Japan

My So-Called Life Story

morganwrites wrote 1 year ago: (WP) – Thanks to chance and circumstance — because people left them, sent them, lent the … more →

Tags: Rudy Giuliani, lies, Barack Obama, fraud, Valerie Plame, George Tenet, Peter Gay, Margaret B. Jones, Misha Defonseca

Margaret B. Jones, Lying Whore3 comments

The Heap Worm wrote 1 year ago: Margaret B. Jones, author of the short-lived but well-received new memoir of hardscrabble life on th … more →

Tags: Literature, Margaret B. Jones, memoir, literary fraud, Oprah, james frey, Whore, lies

ISHMAEL REED: Exclusive Conversation PART 2 OF 3: "FAKING THE HOOD"8 comments

Wajahat Ali wrote 1 year ago: ***THIS IS A “GOATMILK” EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION WITH ISHMAEL REED – UNEDITED. AN EDITED VERSION OF PA … more →

Tags: Art, Gender, interviews, Ishmael Reed, Literature, media, Politics, Race, Wajahat Ali

Indian Literary Frauds: David Treuer on "Going Native"3 comments

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 1 year ago: From Slate: In 1930, shortly after the studio release of his movie The Silent Enemy, Buffalo Child L … more →

Tags: Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Indian Frauds, Fiction, david treuer, Margaret B. Jones, "Love and Consequences"

On Fabulists and their Cultural Appropriation2 comments

ephemerist wrote 1 year ago: In the Times, Daniel Mendelsohn nails what is so despicable about the latest spate of faux memoirs, … more →

Tags: Literature, james frey, Memoirs, Daniel Mendelsohn, fake writers, Misha Defonseca, cultural slumming

More on Seltzer

B. D. wrote 1 year ago: More on Margaret Seltzer story: Motoko Rich, “Tracking the Fallout of (Another) Literary Fraud … more →

Tags: News, New York Times, Scott Simon, npr, Weekend Edition Saturday, ryan tate, Gawker.com, Motoko Rich

Author Margaret B. Jones,"Love and Consequences", Be a Big Fat Liar2 comments

cwriteandtheride wrote 1 year ago: All I have to say is, “What the hell?” I think the saying goes, “Fool me once and … more →

Tags: Culture, writing, Books, Publishing, "Love and Consequences", Margaret B. Jones, memoir

Sadly...This is no hoax.3 comments

etclbp wrote 1 year ago: Well yet another memoir has been outed as a lie. Actually two personalized accounts have been reveal … more →

Tags: Current Affairs, Blogging, Books, liars, Memoirs, Misha, "Love and Consequences", Misha Defonseca

Just the Facts6 comments

Sarah wrote 1 year ago: Pretty much the entire planet has weighed in on the trials and tribulations of fake-memoirist and no … more →

Tags: Books, the spectacle, Memoirs, the refuge of Kraft


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