Culture Buzz You’ve got to fake it to make it in publishing. Want to write a best seller? Make up a compelling story that seems to conform to/explain reality! Who cares if it’s real?? It works in memoir and fiction as well as books about social networking.
Culture Buzz A new, well-received memoir turns out to be a total fake. Margaret Seltzer, writing under the pen name Margaret B. Jones, has admitted that her book, Love and Consequences, is all made up. The Times called the book, which is about growing up in Southern California’s gangland, a “humane and deeply affecting memoir.” But after the author appeared in a profile for the paper’s Home and Garden section, her sister called the Times and spilled the beans.
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