[lbo-talk] Author admits gang-life 'memoir' was all fiction

[Sean Andrews]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Gregory Geboski <leruzhellynwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Doesn't this make one a year of these for the past three or four
>  years?"
>
>  Hell, that's two *this week*....
>
>  http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/02/29/holocaust.bookhoax.ap/index.html
>

In case no one followed the link, here's a gist of what millions of
people--including a ghost writer and publishers who translated it into
18 languages--believed about this writer:

"the author acknowledged her story was not autobiographical and that
she did not trek 1,900 miles as a child across Europe with a pack of
wolves in search of her deported parents during World War II."

I think she should actually get some sort of award for pulling off the
whole "raised by a pack of wolves" thing this late in the game.  I
mean that's a throwback what, one, two, twenty-hundred years?  In a
way, it seems like evidence for why Obama will likely get the
nomination on his message of "Change."  People will believe any shit
you tell them--especially if they see it on TV, or in this case, it is
made into a movie--no matter how many times they've heard the fiction
they're presented with.

s