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

beahthmb.jpgYour memoir about being a child-soldier in Africa better be true or Oprah’s gonna hit you hard!

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