Hoax Memoir Spectacular!

This week, flim flam correspondent and certified April Fool Chelsey Weber-Smith is here to talk about a fistful of fake memoirs, featuring girls raised by wolves; the chicken pox of James Frey; what poetry can give us that memoir can't; and Eugene, Oregon (twice!).
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The Smoking Gun's "A Million Little Lies" thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/million-…
Blake Eskin's "The Girl Who Cried Wolf" bostonmagazine.com/2008/08/18/the-girl-who-cri…
Michelle Dean's "Opal Whiteley's Riddles" newyorker.com/books/page-turner/opal-whiteleys…
Christopher L. Miller's Impostors press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo…

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