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  • July 2008

    • More Madonna Dirt Surfaces in Bro's Book

      newser  |  New York Post  |  Jul 11, 08 12:13 PM CDT

      More Madonna Dirt Surfaces in Bro's Book

      The forthcoming tell-all by Madonna’s estranged brother Christopher Ciccone is a treasure trove of gossip, the New York Post reports. More juicy bits trickling out from Life With My Sister Madonna : Madonna hung an a 8-by-12-foot photo of herself in S&M gear, lying on a bed with dead animals, in full view of her kids. More »

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      book  • Madonna  • memoir  • Guy Ritchie  • celebrity tell-alls  • Christopher Ciccone

  • June 2008
  • May 2008

    • Shiny Morning No New Dawn for Frey

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  May 13, 08 7:23 AM CDT

      Shiny Morning No New Dawn for Frey

      The flap over James Frey's memoir-that-really-wasn't was bound to cast some clouds over his new novel Bright Shiny Morning. But lack of believability continues to be a key issue for the author with his "execrable" new book of two-dimensional characters in a city that bears little resemblance to LA, writes David L. Ulin in the Los Angeles Times . More »

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      Los Angeles  • book reviews  • memoir  • fiction  • novel  • James Frey  • A Million Little Pieces

    • Rap Anti-Gay? Try Oh-So-Gay, Claims Exposé

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  May 11, 08 7:36 PM CDT

      Rap Anti-Gay? Try Oh-So-Gay, Claims Exposé

      Many rappers tout anti-gay attitude, but some are secretly gay too—or so claims a former MTV exec in his upcoming memoir. “The book is not about outing people,” said Terrence Dean, author of Hiding in Hip Hop . “I wrote it so that people realize the industry has a gay subculture and we are part of this music.” His exposé uses code names to keep artists’ double-lives hidden—unless readers can read between the lines. More »

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      hip-hop  • discrimination  • MTV  • rap music  • memoir  • homophobia  • bigotry

    • Ex- View Buddies Swap Barbs

      newser  |  Us Magazine  |  May 7, 08 2:40 PM CDT

      Ex- View Buddies Swap Barbs

      Star Jones is blasting back at Barbara Walters for claims made in her new tell-all memoir, US magazine reports. Walters writes in Audition that Jones compelled her and the other co-hosts of The View to lie about her gastric bypass surgery. More »

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      The View  • memoir  • Barbara Walters  • celebrity tell-alls  • Star Jones  • Audition

    • Baba Wawa Flies High on Book Tour

      newser  |  New York Daily News  |  May 6, 08 10:58 AM CDT

      Baba Wawa Flies High on Book Tour

      Barbara Walters is footing the bill so she can travel in style during her 25-city book tour, the Daily News reports. The 78-year-old, who received a $3 million advance for her memoir Audition, will not only pony up for private jet trips, she'll also bring along her hair and makeup artists from The View. More »

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      book  • memoir  • Barbara Walters  • private jet

  • April 2008

    • 'Lonely Planet' Writer Admits He Made It Up

      newser  |  Australia's News Network  |  Apr 14, 08 4:00 AM CDT

      'Lonely Planet' Writer Admits He Made It Up

      Lonely Planet guidebook executives are reeling in the wake of memoir confessions by one of their authors that he fabricated or plagiarized parts of the books—and dealt drugs to fund his trips. Thomas Kohnstamm also writes in Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? that he flouted guidebook policy by accepting free travel. “They don’t pay enough for what they expect the authors to do,” he told Australia's Herald Sun . More »

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      Colombia  • memoir  • plagiarism  • cheap travel  • Lonely Planet  • solo travel

  • March 2008

    • How to Fake a Memoir

      newser  |  Slate  |  Mar 12, 08 4:03 PM CDT

      How to Fake a Memoir

      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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      humor  • memoir  • author  • James Frey  • Margaret Seltzer  • fake memoirs

    • Gang Memoir Exposed as Fiction

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 4, 08 7:50 AM CST

      Gang Memoir Exposed as Fiction

      Margaret Jones' acclaimed memoir of a half-Native American girl growing up in a foster home in South Central LA and running with gangs, Love and Consequences, turns out to be fiction, the New York Times reports. Jones, whose real name is Seltzer, grew up with her birth parents in an affluent LA neighborhood; she was busted when her sister spotted her photo in a Times feature about the book and called her publisher. More »

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      Los Angeles  • book  • publishing  • memoir  • gangs  • author  • fiction  • fabrication  • Penguin Group  • Margaret Seltzer  • South Central LA

  • February 2008

    • Holocaust Memoir Mostly Fiction: Author

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Feb 29, 08 6:15 PM CST

      Holocaust Memoir Mostly Fiction: Author

      A best-selling Holocaust memoir, which follows a 7-year-old Jewish girl who lived with wolves after losing her parents to the Nazis, is mostly fictional, its author confesses—in particular, the parts about the wolves and her being Jewish, Reuters reports. Misha Defonseca says she "always felt Jewish," but, instead of skinning rabbits as she trekked across Europe, lived in Brussels with her grandparents. More »

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      Nazi  • Holocaust  • memoir  • fiction  • escape

  • January 2008

    • Mrs. Holly Blue About Peggy Sue

      newser  |  Independent (UK)  |  Jan 13, 08 9:00 AM CST

      Mrs. Holly Blue About Peggy Sue

      The widow of rock legend Buddy Holly is prepared to sue the author of a new memoir to stop "tarnishment of Buddy Holly's name," the Independent reports. The target of the suit by Maria Elena Holly is pretty, pretty Peggy Sue herself—Peggy Sue Gerron, now 67, whose book, Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue?, chronicles her very, very "close friendship" with the singer. More »

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      lawsuit  • memoir

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