CULTURE BUZZ: 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. Kohnstamm’s book, “Do Travel Writer’s Go To Hell?”, comes out shortly, and the jury’s out about whether the news is a well-timed publicity stunt, another entry in our on-going obsession with the line between truth and fiction, or just a bunch of his quotes taken out of context?

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The Best Links:

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