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March 4, 2008
Calling all Genre Scholars
You people have to come up with a new name for the fake memoir so these people have a way to sell their books without making the rest of us hate them. Another fictioneer posing as memoirist - this time in L.A. This one was turned in by her sister after seeing a profile in the New York Times. Of course, the author doesn't sound particularly repentent:
“For whatever reason, I was really torn and I thought it was my opportunity to put a voice to people who people don’t listen to,” Ms. Seltzer said. “I was in a position where at one point people said you should speak for us because nobody else is going to let us in to talk. Maybe it’s an ego thing — I don’t know. I just felt that there was good that I could do and there was no other way that someone would listen to it.”
Perhaps if we labeled the shelf Ought to be True?
Posted by CrankyProfessor at March 4, 2008 6:56 AM