Word: autobiographicalã
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...knew? As if faux-memoir writer James Frey weren’t enough, hip literary circles have been rocked by the revelation that the author JT LeRoy is just a phantom of two washed-up rockers’ imaginations. LeRoy, HIV-positive queer writer of “autobiographical?? childhood truck-stop prostitute tales, does not exist, and his rags-to-riches memoirs are a hoax. Oh, the critics bemoan, what happened to the importance of being honest? Where lies the lost virtue of authenticity? A better question might be, “Have we lost our grip...
Malcolm: It was inspired by a very true story that happened in my husband’s family. He did have an aunt whose parents went to Shanghai and completely reinvented themselves. It was Hemingway who said all good fiction is autobiographical??I didn’t realize until the novel was finished how much...
...direction for him—shorter, fast-paced and more personal. Still, when Rushdie was in Harvard Square last Thursday reading from the novel for Wordsworth Books, he chose to obscure some of the more personal elements of the book (despite quipping that Fury is “entirely autobiographical??it shouldn’t really be called a novel”). Rushdie read a chapter that required his self-possessed English accent to deliver itself of the cadences of, like, American youth to comic effect. In answer to a question at the reading about the importance...
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