The Lonely Planet writer says he made a bunch of stuff up, accepted free food and lodging for favorable reviews, and sold drugs on the side just to survive.

The Best Links:

1. Rough Day Around the Lonely Planet Offices, Right?
2. Now Kohnstamm Denies He Made Anything Up
3. Do Travel Writers Go To Hell? Official Site
4. The Beginning of a Back-N-Forth Twixt Kohnstamm and Lonely Planet
5. “Lonely Planet Reeling After Author’s Fraud”
6. Lonely Planet Getting Ripped in the Travel Blogs
7. See You in Hell, Thomas Kohnstamm
8. The Lonely Planet Forum on Kohnstamm
9. Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism
10. Lonely Planet Responds to the Kohnstamm Story
11. Is This a Case of Quotes Out of Context?
12. Thomas Kohnstamm Blogs His Visit to Patagonia
13. Thomas Kohnstamm’s MySpace Profile
14. No But Seriously, Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?