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Over at Omnivoracious , hosted by Amazon.com. Only one post is up so far and it's annoyingly music-centric. Why all the flashing lights and filler for your readings, James Frey? Why can't you just get up there and, um, READ? We have grown grumpy...
Daniel Mendelsohn ( The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million ) wrote what we thought was a depressing but super-smart Op-Ed piece in the Sunday Times . He makes excellent points about the fake-memoir trend, but even more important, he explains what it...
RECALLED. Everyone is all in a huff over the "Margaret Jones" scandal . Her True Life story, Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival , was a fraud. She is not part Native American. She was not an abused foster child living on the...
Sloane Crosley: The new Dorothy Parker, some say -- or just our new Imaginary Friend Kelefa Sanneh, our favorite New York Times pop music critic, is going to be a staff writer at The New Yorker ! Now he and the S.F.J. can totally duke it out over the...
James Frey is serious about his come-back, so much so that he's jazzing up his forthcoming novel, Bright Shiny Morning , with jacket art by his friend Richard Prince. He's also thinking of going Ira Glass on us, with a book tour that the New York...
