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The Latest in Fake Memoir News
Fake memoirs seem all the rage nowadays. There was Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival, the story of a teenage gangbanger in Los Angeles that turned out to be written by a middle class white suburban woman.
Oh No! Elitists on the Horizon!
I was recently in Oakland, California, spending the afternoon watching some hipster bands play a house show in a sort of art-school punk-rock party compound, complete with barbed wire fencing all around the perimeter of the backyard (this is the sort of exotic jet-setting one does when one is an art blogger). I was having a good time, but after an hour or so, all the skinny kids thrashing away on their instruments were becoming less and less distinguishable, so I decided to wander elsewhere in the house to see what things I could find there.
J. D. Salinger? Not for us.
The legendary editor Robert Giroux passed away last Friday, at the age of 94. Even though his name remains part of an eminent publishing house - Farrar, Straus, and Giroux – one imagines that even the best editors are forgotten well before decent authors.
Cookery Books: Next Gen
I don't really want to think about Christmas yet, I shun any holiday movies/songs until after Thanksgiving. I even direct my 4 year old to avert his gaze from the shiny shiny currently draped all over Target.
