Fake Memoirs

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The Literary Liars Club recently expanded its roster. The latest scandal involves a suburban white woman writing as a half-white, half-Indian inner-city gangbanger. Why is there such a proliferation of fake memoirs? Why not just sell an imaginary story as fiction? Jonathan Kirsch speaks with novelists, editors and publishers.

Guests:

• Sara Nelson: Editor in Chief, Publishers Weekly
• David Ulin: Editor, Los Angeles Times Book Review
• Judith Freeman: novelist and biographer

Links:

• Michiko Kakutani's New York Times review of 'Love and Consequences'
• James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces'
• Lynell George's Los Angeles Times article (LAT) on 'Love and Consequences,' author

Host

Jonathan Kirsch

Intellectual property attorney; author of A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization

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Produced by

Sarah Spitz

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