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    Fake Memoirs

    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?

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    KCRW placeholderBy Jonathan Kirsch • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

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      Jonathan Kirsch

      author and book review columnist

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      Publicity Director

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      Sara Nelson

      Editor in Chief, Publishers Weekly

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      David Ulin

      professor of English at USC, editor of literary journal “Air/Light”

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      Judith Freeman

      novelist and biographer

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