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Fake Memoirist Channels Sherman Alexienew

Margaret Seltzer's untruths and consequences.
L.A. Weekly  |  Matthew Fleischer  |  03-14-2008  |  Books

Truth and 'Consequences'new

Book publishers are still so hooked on the cash dreams of true confessions, they'll risk repeated bouts of fake-memoir scandal to give the public what it wants. Last week we learned that half-white/half-Native American author Margaret B. Jones's acclaimed new Love and Consequences, her memoir of gangsta life as a South Central L.A. foster child, was totally made up.
Los Angeles CityBeat  |  Natalie Nichols  |  03-14-2008  |  Books

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