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So everyone is arguing about who is to blame when fake writers (a la Frey, Jones, Nasdijj, et al) are discovered. A lot of the blame is heaped on the part of editors and agents for being to quick to swallow lies and embellishments. Other people criticize the publishers since they don’t (and can’t) fact-check in…
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Two more cases of fictional memoirs… This time, a bestselling Holocaust memoir turned out to be fake. As The New York Times writes, “The author was never trapped in the Warsaw ghetto. Neither was she adopted by wolves who protected her from the Nazis, nor did she trek 1,900 miles across Europe in search of her…
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So the Super Bowl is this weekend and I’m torn. I don’t really care for the Patriots so I would be tempted to root against them. Plus, Eli Manning went to Ole Miss and I remember when the Mannings used to pass through the Alumni House when I worked there. So I feel some obligations…
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Jonathan Lyons has an interesting post about fresh and original ideas over at his blog. He makes some worthwhile points that all aspiring authors should remember. “I read hundreds of published books a year, hundreds of manuscripts, hundreds of partials, and thousands of queries,” Lyons writes. “I also read numerous book reviews and have conversations with…
continue readingBanks Profiled
Author Russell Banks is profiled by Reuters. “I thought I was going to be an artist, a painter, not a writer,” Banks tells the news service. “I didn’t have much of a literary bent but I did for painting because I had a visible talent. It’s like music. If you are talented it shows early on…
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