please, more delusional authors!

The only True history is Torah. The Jewish people have been crafting powerful, righteous narrative for thousands of years. But ever since Pharaoh drove us from Egypt we have been oppressed. This is a true story from Torah.

I guess my point is idiot Christians are to dumb to write. That why I prefer Jewish authors like Jonathan Safran Foyer who only write the truth - the history of Jewish oppression.

The show was titled: "A Couple Of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking".

Until two and a half years ago, she said, she bred pit bulls and sold them locally and in Los Angeles, where red-nosed pit bulls are the favorite dog of Bloods, largely because of their reputedly aggressive nature. (Ms. Jones hotly defends the breed, maintaining that they are friendly unless abusively trained.) Pit bulls function as a Bloods symbol, as Rottweilers do for the Crips. Ms. Jones said she sold puppies to gang members and others for $200 apiece.

Another wannabe bites the dust! She just wanted to give a voice to those who had none but it all had to be true or somehow it wouldn't be real.
Best part :“She seems to be very, very naïve,”
Maybe she can still cash in on Oprah, like Frey did.

Regarding why she couldn't just publish it as fiction: it doesn't sound like that good of a book. With the "look what she's overcome!" angle it's potentially heartwarming (if you're one of the easily-warmed), but without it, well... who would read that?

How did this lady do her research? Did she Google "bloods" and just work some of that stuff in? If this subject matter really interested her so much, she could have done it justice by interviewing real people, and perhaps fictionalizing real anecdotes from different people into one coherent character. Instead, she took the lazy way out, the journalistic equivalent of making up quotes and attributing them to unnamed sources. Now the scandal involved will probably garner her much more attention than her "talent" would otherwise warrant.

Oh, Mr. Poe, you are the master of self-deprecating irony

That said, she was a fairly incoherent voice...

Thank you Slog, for reminding me of the things I hated most about the late 90's: Fucking Seattle hippies... And fucking Seattle hippies washing out their sea sponges in public sinks.

I once read a Time article about a Native American woman with a similar life history, and, judging from the photos, she actually was Native American.

(Which, now that I think about it, OUCH!, especially if you're using a metal nib.)

I remember seeing her do some sort of performance piece in some dive in pioneer square. it was kind of spoken word with simple Casio accompanyment. it went:

Thank you for the computer
(something something something)
Thank you for the computer
(something something something)

..repeated for about 7 minutes. Cringe-worthy.

@6: Aww, man, now if I say I'm a Jew girl whose favorite contemporary author is Jonathan Safran Foer, I'm just going to look like Issur-poser. Why'd you have to pick him?

There are decent memoirs, but in order to be written well they almost have to break the expectations of the genre. Like science fiction and romance, it's rare for a memoir writer to escape the negative connotations of the genre to create something with literary merit. It's damn hard to write well about yourself. Not enough distance.

That said, I really don't understand the fascination with memoirs and "Based on a true story!" tags right now. If it's a good story, if it carries emotional power, what does it matter if it's true?

I could make the argument for Inga that words themselves are an instrument of oppression! TOP THAT, JOURNALIST/HIPPIE INGA.

Even if Jonathan Safran Foer lied or made up parts of his book and misrepresented the history of that little village Klubochin. I personally don't care that eyewitness accounts and memoirs of Jewish, Ukrainian and Russian partisans is very different from the one depicted in the Safran Foer's book.

I guess my point is when a Jew like Johnathan Safran Foer lies in his memoire that's just constructing Jewish narrative.

But when a goyium Christian lies, they must be denounced.

My point is read Johnathan Safran Foer and ignore the criticism about the lies in Everything's Illuminated. It's a beautiful book by a great Jewish author who keeps kosher.

Books aren't what they used to be, and outside of Harry Potter-like crazes, they will remain on the fringe to where they have fallen as long as the industry continues to drown in trust-fund kids and taken-care-of wives.

art is dead.

So please, if you don't have anything incredibly demeaning to say, you might want to sit this one out.

Also, word to 34 - I f***ing HATED "Everything is Illuminated". What a sorry state when idiotic dreck like that is given the four-star treatment.