Comments on: Books today: are you reading fact, fiction, or both?

By: Book Review: Mrs. Perfect at Spotlight

Book Review: Mrs. Perfect at Spotlight — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:50:17 +0000

[...] in her romances, she seems to put more of her self in her books for 5-Spot. Jane was nice enough to chat with us about the lines between fact and fiction in books today. Read the rest of the [...]

By: Nanette Rayman Rivera

Nanette Rayman Rivera — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:27:31 +0000

Hi. As an author who is having terrible trouble getting my memoir published, even though my story IS unique in so many ways, even though I am a two time Pushcart nominee and three chapters have been acclaimed and published, one winning a prize, one nominated for Pushcart, I am ANGRY that editors are so stupid that they publish fake memoirs yet tell me mine won’t sell. My stuff is easily checked. You can find out that I did live in a homeless shelter, that I did fight welfare, that I was the most unlikely person to do all this, that I was the token educated white person NOT on drugs in these situations. They can check that endless NYC companies did not hire me and gave illegal reasons. SO I am livid that these FAKES get published.

As to what brothers or sisters remember, I know that my brother “conveniently” doesn’t remember that my parents did not send me to college, but sent him. How is that possible; is he blind? No, he won’t admit it, because it ruins his world-view that HE is the tortured one.

Thanks for your cool site.

Nanette

By: A Gaggle of Book Reviews | Books today: are you reading fact, fiction, or both?

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:44:01 +0000

[...] I am disappointed and appalled that an author would do this, and it boggles my mind that anyone would try to sell a false memoir as fact. I can completely understand why someone would want to be published, and that if the memoir market is hot, authors aim for publication in the hot market. However, I can’t understand why someone would risk everything by lying so profoundly about their lives, with the hubris of believing they wouldn’t get caught, when in truth it was relatively easy to disprove their story. Read more [...]

By: Felicia Sullivan - Author, Foodie, Rockstar » » Blog Archive » Margaret Jones, Margaret Seltzer: let me tell you what i really think

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:01:02 +0000

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