Aug 22 2011
Dear Ms. Karz, First of all, this is a great title! I didn’t grow up wishing to be a ballerina. In fact I never even took dance classes of any kind when I was growing up. And since, when I’m on the dance floor, I can only dream of being as graceful as a hippo(…)
Jun 13 2011
Author LA Banks is gravely ill and could use assistance of the monetary kind. She is so gravely ill that she is not able to respond to text or e-mail messages received visitors or even accept flowers. There is more information about the donations you can make here. ***** I am one part horrified and(…)
Dec 26 2008
Gabriel Sherman of The New Republic first broke the news that Angel at the Fence by Herman Rosenblat, Holocaust memoir, might be fabricated. Professor Kenneth Waltzer, the director of the Jewish Studies program at Michigan State University, became aware of the story and was suspicious of the details Rosenblat recounted. Waltzer was convinced that the(…)
Jun 13 2008
Usually when Amazon reviews are penned by the family members, it is done so with the intent to bolster star rankings but maybe the most effective Amazon reviews are ones that generate controversy which in turns stir booksales. According to GalleyCat, Rachel Sontag wrote a memoir, House Rules, about growing up with an emotionally abusive(…)
Apr 8 2008
It’s 90 percent true if you count things that happened to anyone,” he says. “It’s only about half true if you define it as actual things happening to the actual people they happened to.” So says one of the characters in Ben Mezrich’s book, Bringing Down the House. Bringing Down the House is marketed as(…)
Mar 21 2008
NPR this morning discussed the fake memoir and the online previews of books. The acclaimed but fake memoir of Margaret B. Jones aka Peggy Seltzer came under attack by writers who actually did live the gang life. Needless to say, the writers feel disrespected by Seltzer’s attempt to profit off of their lives. But more(…)
Mar 4 2008
It only took a week to debunk supposed memoir Love and Consequences by Margaret B Jones. L&C was a story about Margaret’s “life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.” The author, Margaret Seltzer, is a) all white b)(…)
Feb 29 2008
Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years which related a Jewish child’s Holocaust experience including trekking 1900 miles across Europe with a pack of wolves (I know, I thought I saw that Disney movie too) is apparently not a memoir but a pack of fiction (or pack of lies, but I thought that was too(…)
Jan 22 2008
As if the Cassie Edwards’ copying scandal hasn’t demoralized your faith in the publishing industry enough, Ishmael Beah’s bestselling memoir, A Long Way Gone, is the subject of two investigative pieces by The Australian. The first article was published on January 19, 2008, and tells the story about a couple who were keenly interested in(…)
Sep 17 2007
Alan Greenspan couldn’t have been more inscrutable as the Fed Chairman nor more powerful. Every Tuesday, the investment world awaited his stance on the interest rate. According to the NY Times, Greenspan speaks out against Bush, Republicans and the War in his book, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World. On Bush :(…)
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