Today's fakes

Galleycat yesterday and today has news of:
- the latest on the Nasdijj scandal
- the Snake Is Totally Tail children's book ripoff
- the Frey fray

And that's just Galleycat. Meanwhile Rick Moody (who is definitely the real thing) talks with The Independent about his latest, The Diviners, drawing attention to the fact that one of the main plot points involves a Hollywood hoax.

And also in The Independent, a newly skeptical interviewer grills Augusten Burroughs, whose tsuris-filled memoirs are said to mirror his tsuris-filled real life. Uh-oh... any red flags there? Jury's still out. Compare this Oct. 2004 interview by Rachel K-B with this Nov. 2005 profile in Salon by Priya Jain, the latter piece having been written after the JT LeRoy hoax had begun unravelling.

Gee, with our country embroiled in a war over totally invented reasons, I wonder why we're suddenly obsessed with hoaxes and frauds these days. Must do some thinking about that!

literary hoaxes, James Frey, Nasdijj, Rick Moody, Augusten Burroughs