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  • June 2008
    • 'Realish' Sedaris Book Skirts Memoir Scrutiny

      'Realish' Sedaris Book Skirts Memoir Scrutiny

      (Newser) - With his new book of nonfiction essays, Engulfed in Flames , David Sedaris finds himself engulfed in questions of truth and accuracy. In America, the recent explosion of memoirs has been followed with one scandal after another, prompting more scrutiny of the humorist’s work. “I do think Sedaris exaggerates too much for a writer using a nonfiction label," a New Republic writer argued last year. More »

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      book   literature   memoir   humor   writer   nonfiction books   fake memoirs

  • March 2008
    • How to Fake a Memoir

      How to Fake a Memoir

      (Newser) - Misha Defonseca's memoir left a sticky trail of lies about escaping Nazis and living with wolves. (It turns out wolf saliva isn't an antiseptic.) Tired of careless fabricators, Slate writes a how-to for aspiring fakers: Keep it vague. Dates are verifiable—"awhile" is not. Watch out for tattling siblings. Revenge can be dirty, especially if you kill them off in your faux memoir (as Margaret Seltzer recently discovered). Check your paper trail. That goes for elementary school registers, which gave away Defonseca's real whereabouts. More »

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      memoir   humor   author   James Frey   Margaret Seltzer   fake memoirs

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