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The Fake Memoirist's Survival Guide
URL: http://www.slate.com/id/2185918/

Description:
This March 2008 article provides an amusing view of ways in which memoirists who have fabricated stories can "avoid future literary humiliations." Guidelines for "embellish[ing] your life story without getting caught" include avoiding specificity, being a victim, and not having witnesses (as author Margaret Seltzer tried to do). Includes links to related material. From the online magazine Slate.

LII Topics: Memoirs, Nonfiction by Genre, Satire

Publisher:
Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC

Extra Keywords
fabulists

LII Database Information:
Record 25711 created by Maria Brandt on 03/17/2008
Last modification on 03/19/2008
Published: 03/27/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25711

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