http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/05/12/im-shocked-shocked/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:06:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/05/12/im-shocked-shocked/#comment-105236 Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » 2008 » March » 03 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:58:18 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/05/12/im-shocked-shocked/#comment-105236 [...] Is it more depressing when fake memoirs deal with the heavy subjects than trivial matters? Certainly. Though there are exceptions, most people aren’t as angry at an author when they learn his wacky family wasn’t quite as wacky as depicted as they are when they learn that his empathy-earning tale of woe was manufactured. [...] […] Is it more depressing when fake memoirs deal with the heavy subjects than trivial matters? Certainly. Though there are exceptions, most people aren’t as angry at an author when they learn his wacky family wasn’t quite as wacky as depicted as they are when they learn that his empathy-earning tale of woe was manufactured. […]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/05/12/im-shocked-shocked/#comment-1459 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Bissinger vs. Burroughs Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:38:07 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/05/12/im-shocked-shocked/#comment-1459 [...] Ah, memories. Remember when James Frey (A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard) was carried through the streets of New York on the shoulders of an adoring crowd, then crowned King of the Memoir by a teary Patricia Hampl (I Could Tell You Stories)–only to be later chased to the docks, dodging a bombardment of soggy vegetables, by a reading public outraged at being duped yet again? [...] […] Ah, memories. Remember when James Frey (A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard) was carried through the streets of New York on the shoulders of an adoring crowd, then crowned King of the Memoir by a teary Patricia Hampl (I Could Tell You Stories)–only to be later chased to the docks, dodging a bombardment of soggy vegetables, by a reading public outraged at being duped yet again? […]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/05/12/im-shocked-shocked/#comment-448 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » A New Twist on the Fictionalized Memoir Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:30:50 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/05/12/im-shocked-shocked/#comment-448 [...] Whereas there is a growing number of memoirists whose work, purported to be true, has been proven to be false, O. J. Simpson is, apparently, going to give this trend a twist: he’s going to publish a memoir he insists is false, but which most people will insist is the truth. (There’s another take, with a few more details–but not the purported publisher’s name–here.) [...] […] Whereas there is a growing number of memoirists whose work, purported to be true, has been proven to be false, O. J. Simpson is, apparently, going to give this trend a twist: he’s going to publish a memoir he insists is false, but which most people will insist is the truth. (There’s another take, with a few more details–but not the purported publisher’s name–here.) […]

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