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<title>Slog - Comments on The 3% Solution</title>
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<description> Last week, David Sedaris said that his essays were 97% true and 3% embellishment. This week, Barnes and Noble shelves Sedaris&apos; newest book under fiction. This is ridiculous. I think there are lots of allegedly non-fiction books--biographies and journalism and historical narratives--that are at least 3% made up, either accidentally or on purpose. This supposedly razor-thin line of fact and fiction, and the repeated attempts of bookstores and libraries to keep the one from tampering with the other, is out of control. Is Oprah going to yell at David Sedaris now?* Are booksellers and librarians trying to protect the...</description>
<copyright>Copyright 2008</copyright>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by boxofbirds</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I'm SHOCKED! SHOCKED! that David Sedaris' memoirs are embellished! All this time I thought they were direct, third-party, transcriptions from a video tape of every waking moment of his life.</p>]]></description>
<author>boxofbirds</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1044704</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:10:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by corianton</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>So he didn't REALLY french kiss a teenage goat? What is literature coming to?</p>]]></description>
<author>corianton</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1044730</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:14:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Dougsf</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Jesus, seriously? The book stores I go to always have this stuff under "Notes and Letters" anyhow. Also, bookstores are arranged by crazy people.</p>]]></description>
<author>Dougsf</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1044746</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:16:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Gurldoggie</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>And I heard that frog in Calaveras County couldn't really jump that high! The whole thing was lies lies lies!</p>]]></description>
<author>Gurldoggie</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1044784</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:23:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by boxofbirds</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Maybe Barnes and Noble should just start a "Damn Dirty Lies" section for anything not fully verified by scholars at Oxford University.</p>]]></description>
<author>boxofbirds</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1044786</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:24:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Gurldoggie</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>From the Sunday Times:</p>

<p>“Naked,” for instance, has a story “where my mother hits a cat with her car, and the cat dies, and the cat comes back to life and says, ‘You killed me,’ ” Sedaris said. Speaking of [journalist Alex] Heard, he added, “That’s what he was fact-checking, that book.”</p>]]></description>
<author>Gurldoggie</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1044814</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:28:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by boo-kitty</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>MMM>>> naked juice and sleeping in late in the evening with a good book and a molotov highball... sounds D_LISH.</p>]]></description>
<author>boo-kitty</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1044845</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:36:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by umvue</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Fiction?!  Horrors!  What's a more appropriate categorization?  Home Improvement?  Etiquette?  </p>]]></description>
<author>umvue</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1044857</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:38:23 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by michael strangeways</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Borders is doing the same thing.</p>

<p>Sister Amy has been making fun of David's little embellishments for years...though his depiction of HER seems completely accurate.</p>

<p>AND...Mr Sedaris is far less entertaining writing as a rich, privledged, Normandy dwelling, ex-smoker, drinker and stoner than when he was a poor schlub, cleaning toilets and getting wasted everyday...</p>

<p>The new book is...o.k. but it's no Barrel Fever.</p>]]></description>
<author>michael strangeways</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1044958</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:01:41 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by vooodooo84</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>so can we put Napoleon's war diaries and Columbus's Journal in the fiction section now too?</p>]]></description>
<author>vooodooo84</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1044959</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1044959</guid>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:01:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Fnarf</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>No one could write a memoir that topped 97% if they tried. I think 67% is a more likely goal. Memories are lies we tell ourselves to make the story better. Sedaris's books are at least as factual as Simon Schama's.</p>]]></description>
<author>Fnarf</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1044974</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:05:24 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by PopTart</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>"Memories are lies we tell ourselves to make the story better."</p>

<p>That was lovely Fnarf.</p>]]></description>
<author>PopTart</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1044982</link>
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<category>Books</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:08:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by PA Native</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@12</p>

<p>Second. </p>]]></description>
<author>PA Native</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1045059</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1045059</guid>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:27:38 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Smade</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>George Macdonald Fraser's tales of his days in the Gordon Highlanders were, by his own admission, roughly the same proportion of non-fiction to fiction, but have been classified as fiction since their publication some 35 years ago.  This is not a new phenomenon.</p>]]></description>
<author>Smade</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1045164</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:06:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Jo Spot</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>...this is all oprah's fault.  stupid stupid stupid.</p>]]></description>
<author>Jo Spot</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1045569</link>
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<category>Books</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:34:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by blackbird76</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Good. Can women start thinking for themselves now or will they still need Oprah?</p>

<p>What a joke.</p>

<p> </p>]]></description>
<author>blackbird76</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1045597</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1045597</guid>
<category>Books</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:03:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by kelly</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>ugh. my vah-jay-jay's hurtin'.</p>]]></description>
<author>kelly</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1045745</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1045745</guid>
<category>Books</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:30:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by dawicksta</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>All stories are true. Some of them actually happen.</p>]]></description>
<author>dawicksta</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1045782</link>
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<category>Books</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:05:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Todd X</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Borders has always shelved Sedaris under Fiction/Literature.  It's not a big deal.</p>]]></description>
<author>Todd X</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1051293</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_3_solution#c1051293</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:28:56 -0800</pubDate>
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