If you love the literary world, you must keep on top of the Book Standard. Today they had an article that caught my crime loving eye…Hiding and Lying: Two Authors Exposed
I don’t know about you, but this makes me WANT to read the book even more. Because I live in a cave, I hadn’t even heard of it prior to this. Now I just HAVE to know what they’re talking about. Great marketing. Have you read the book they’re talking about? A Million Little Pieces by James Frey?
Why didn’t I think about that? Let me tell you some lies about my underwear. Quickly, before you think I’m telling the truth.
From author/blogger Ron Franscell at https://underthenews.blogspot.com …
American literature — considered an oxymoron in the rest of the world — has gone downhill fast since New York surrendered America’s storytelling standards to Hollywood, where illusion — EVEN IN TRUE STORIES — is exactly the point. Today, the “perfect” story is determined by its film-worthiness more than its literary quality. In the name of creating Californicated literature, New York editors have blurred the line until even they don’t know what’s true. “It’s a good story,” they’ll say, “so who cares if it’s an utter and ballsy lie?”
I care. Capote admitted on the bookjacket that “In Cold Blood” was fictionalized in some part. Coleridge’s definition of fiction was “the willing suspension of disbelief.” What if it’s not willing? That’s the difference between making love and rape, albeit without either the exhilaration or violence. If you thought you were reading a true story, you were conned. What if we found out next week that the famous Zapruder film was, in fact, a Hollywood dramatization passed off as a real eyewitness home-movie and, oh, isn’t it funny how we fooled you??