from SLATE: >The NY [TIMES] fronts word that Love and Consequences, a memoir by Margaret B. Jones that received rave reviews, was all made up. The author of the work is really Margaret Seltzer, and she confessed to the NYT in a "sometimes tearful, often contrite" telephone interview. Instead of a half-white, half-Native American who was raised by a black foster mother in a tough neighborhood of Los Angeles and sold drugs for the Bloods gang, Seltzer is a white woman who was raised by her biological family in a well-off area of San Fernando Valley and went to an exclusive private school. The story began unfolding when her sister saw a profile of "Jones" in the NYT (which apparently didn't check any of her claims) last week and alerted the publisher. Seltzer admits she made a mistake but emphasized the book was based on real experiences of her friends, and she said she wrote it while "sitting at the Starbucks" in South Central Los Angeles, where "I would talk to kids who were Black Panthers and kids who were gang members and kids who were not."<
I don't think that there are very many (or even any) Starbucks restaurants in South Central (which is currently dubbed "South L.A.") -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
