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Tuesday, Mar 04
Peggy Seltzer/Margaret B. Jones/Fake Memoir News Continues
According to Seal Press, their author Inga Muscio was duped by Peggy Seltzer, just like everyone, or nearly everyone else. Krista Lyons-Gould and Brooke Warner (with names like those, we're guessing they can spot WASPs) are pissed: When we receive a proposal for a memoir, we want to be moved, we want to find something people identify with, we want more than anything else to believe that the brave and honest truth we're publishing might inspire or at least resonate with others struggling themselves. They must be so relieved that this isn't their book. According to Undercover Black Man, the now-pulled Riverhead memoir/novelization was originally titled: Blood and Consequences: Coming of Age in an L.A. Gang Powell's cancelled the reading, but left up the blurb. AP quotes the head of the imprint:
The Eugene Register-Guard spiked a profile with Peggy when her educational background didn't check out. (Unlike the unwary NYT.) An NYT reader offers:
Kevin Allman asks what so many have been thinking: Were any actual black people involved in the publication of this book? Say one thing for Ms. Seltzer, she's made people stop harpying about Diablo Cody. Email This Post |
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