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Literary Hoaxes
(HuntingtonNews.net) - As the recent Colorado "Balloon Boy" staged-for-
media event demonstrates, there must be a hoax gene lurking in many people, awaiting only the proper time to be unleashed. Melissa Katsoulis provides a very good sampling of hoaxes by writers in her "Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds" (Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/LiteraryHoaxes ). James Frey scammed a major publisher, Random House, and Oprah Winfrey in his faux addiction memoir "A Million Little Pieces" published in 2003 and exposed as a fake in late 2005 and early 2006; and a white "Valley Girl" using the nom de plume Margaret B. Jones (real name Margaret Seltzer) pretended to be a half Native-American, half-white gang follower in her faux memoir "Love and Consequences." Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin, published her story of growing up the foster child of black parents in South-Central Los Angeles, and Oprah featured "Jones" on her show. One wonders about the fact-checking, vetting process of Oprah's show, as well as fact-checking at major publishers. Katsoulis says the vetting procedures have been tightened in the wake of the Frey and "Jones" episodes, both of which are examined in detail in this book. I wonder if they have been, since new fakes keep cropping up.. Continued: http://xrl.us/LiteraryHoaxesReview |
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