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To: Rambi who wrote (64512)	3/2/2008 9:24:51 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 90947

Your grandfather sounds like a wonderful man. He was terrific. A life story you would not believe. Of course, that was par for the course in the day.

To: Rambi who wrote (64512)	3/4/2008 2:51:19 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 90947

Pick my fake memoir title!! The New York Times' Motoko Rich reports on the latest memoir scandal: In “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods. The problem is that none of it is true. Margaret B. Jones is a pseudonym for Margaret Seltzer, who is all white and grew up in the well-to-do Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley, with her biological family. She graduated from the Campbell Hall School, a private Episcopal day school in the North Hollywood neighborhood. She has never lived with a foster family, nor did she run drugs for any gang members. Nor did she graduate from the University of Oregon, as she had claimed.... The revelations of Ms. Seltzer’s mendacity came in the wake of the news last week that a Holocaust memoir, “Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years” by Misha Defonseca, was a fake, and perhaps more notoriously, two years ago James Frey, the author of a best-selling memoir, “A Million Little Pieces,” admitted that he had made up or exaggerated details in his account of his drug addiction and recovery. Once you hit three examples, a media trend is officially declared. Since I am such a slavish follower of these trends, I have decided to write my own fake memoirs!! My problem is that it strains credulity for me to claim the kind of drug or criminal experiences that Frey and others concocted. So, clearly, I need to devise a plausible set of fake bad behaviors that I can use to hawk my own fake memoirs. Afer racking my brain for a few seconds, I have come up with three possible fake memoir titles. Let me know in the comments which one you prefer -- or come up with one of your own!!: 1) Confessions of a Housing Hit Man: Why I Helped Blow Up the Housing Bubble (With the Help of, You Know, the People Who Decided to Buy the Houses) and Now Regret It. 2) I Am Sprezzatura: How I Made a Living Writting 95% of All Comments in the Blogosphere 3) Not Just a Gigolo: My Life and Times in Hollywood Servicing the Body and Mind of Salma, Ashley, Angelina, Scarlett, Tina, Jessica, Jessica, and Jessica... but mostly Salma. UPDATE: I forgot... fake names for the fake memoir title would be appreciated. Come to think of it, there should be a formula for this kind of thing, like figuring out your porn star name. I hereby declare the formula to determine your Fake Memoir Name to be......drumroll..... the first name of your gender-appropriate paternal grandparent + the last name of your first-grade teacher. In which case, my Fake Memoir name is.... Lou Hayes. posted by Dan on 03.04.08 at 08:59 AM danieldrezner.com Memories of me 04 Mar 2008 11:40 am The revelation that a searing tell-all memoir about gang life in LA was made up by a suburban white chick has inspired Dan Drezner to sponsor a contest for best fake memoir title. And, of course, a good name to go with it: I hereby declare the formula to determine your Fake Memoir Name to be......drumroll..... the first name of your gender-appropriate paternal grandparent + the last name of your first-grade teacher. In which case, my Fake Memoir name is.... Lou Hayes. I have composed several candidates for the title: 1) Red Herring: Five years inside the CIA's secret war in Denmark 2) Lost innocents: a memoir of dying in the World Trade Center Attacks 3) Kidnapped!: How I survived being abducted by Indians... meganmcardle.theatlantic.com