Margaret Seltzer

My Non-Fake Memoir

March 20, 2008 - JT LeRoy. James Frey. And now Margaret Seltzer. What to say about these authors, except that their pants are probably on fire right...

The 23/6 Fake Memoir-o-Tron

March 6, 2008 - It was revealed this week that the critically acclaimed memoir "Love and Consequences," the story of a young mixed-race girl who grew up in poverty under foster care to become a gang member on the mean...

A New Genre of Book: The Fake Autobiography

March 6, 2008 - There's a new category of book--the fictitious memoir--the most recent being Love and Consequences by Margaret B. Jones, purporting to be by a woman claiming to have been raised in poverty by a black foster mother, who sold drugs for a gang in a tough Los Angeles...