Tag archive for ‘ishmael beah’
A long way gone (and muddy about the facts?)
Get out your pitchforks and torches. Those crazy memoirists will just flat out lie about anything: addiction, L.A. childhood gang life, Native American-ness, growing up a Jew in Europe during the Holocaust, pretty much anything… What exactly do we have to do to these people to make them stop? Buy their books in record numbers, [...]
Cue angry mob: truth police bust another memoirist
Your memoir about being a child-soldier in Africa better be true or Oprah’s gonna hit you hard!
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