tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post7918599333976097969..comments2024-03-25T20:40:44.806-04:00Comments on Literary Rejections on Display Now Has Long COVID: Another Memoir FakeWriter, Rejectedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241982229214057815noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-42473800466054049602008-03-08T04:11:00.000-05:002008-03-08T04:11:00.000-05:00Michiko Kakutani has questionable taste, now, does...Michiko Kakutani has questionable taste, now, doesn't she?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-50957541436854451212008-03-05T23:21:00.000-05:002008-03-05T23:21:00.000-05:00Doesn't Ms. Jones look eerily like a mugshot of th...Doesn't Ms. Jones look eerily like a mugshot of that homicidal British au pair Louise Woodward. They could be evil twins.xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17866348942612559536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-82625281948631029392008-03-04T14:35:00.000-05:002008-03-04T14:35:00.000-05:00I just wrote a post about exactly this issue, less...I just wrote a post about exactly this issue, less pithy and witty than you, but basically saying that these never would have been published as fiction. However, I hold the writers themselves responsible for being greedy liars who by their criminal acts belittle all the suffering of real people in those situations. They especially provide fuel for Holocaust denial. There is no excuse.xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17866348942612559536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-59373305791574676262008-03-04T14:09:00.000-05:002008-03-04T14:09:00.000-05:00"enough with the reality T.V. literature, people. ..."enough with the reality T.V. literature, people. Any of these fakes probably would have been bitchin' novels. That is, if only you still published fiction"<BR/><BR/>i couldn't have said it better myself. what are the odds of frey or jones/selzer or defonseca getting published if they presented this stuff as a novel, no matter how bitchin'? about none.<BR/><BR/>it says volumes about the publishing business that in this day and age of james frey et. al that this could even happen. it boggles the mind -- but sadly, doesn't surprise me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com