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March 4, 2008

Yet Another Fake Memoir (YAFM): Love and Consequences by Margaret B Jones

JanePublishing NewsMemoir / Memoirs / plagiarism11 Comments

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, ... more >

February 29, 2008

Holocaust Memoir Debunked. Author Admits to Making It All Up.

JanePublishing NewsMemoir / Memoirs5 Comments

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 ... more >

January 22, 2008

Ishmael Beah’s Memoir Facing Frey-like Scrutiny

JanePublishing NewsJames-Frey / Literary Criticism / Memoirs12 Comments

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 ... more >

September 17, 2007

Greenspan’s New Book Strikes Out Against Bush, Republicans and the War

JanePublishing NewsMemoirs / political-booksComments Off on Greenspan’s New Book Strikes Out Against Bush, Republicans and the War

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 ... more >

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