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NYT Unloads on Discrepancies in Minor-League Baseball Memoir

March 3, 2009
By Michael Cader

Matt McCarthy’s recently-published ODD MAN OUT, his “his salacious memoir of his summer as an obscure minor league pitcher,” is full of “wide-ranging errors and misquotations” according to the NYT. “Statistics from that season, transaction listings and interviews with his former teammates indicate that many portions of the book are incorrect, embellished or impossible.” Are […]

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Lerner Pulls Angel Girl

December 30, 2008
By Michael Cader

Lerner Publishing Group, also duped into publishing Herman Rosenblat’s fake Holocaust love story in the children’s book ANGEL GIRL (released this September), is recalling the book. The company is “issuing refunds on all returned books” and “no longer offering the book for sale.” They say in a statement they were “shocked and disappointed to learn […]

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Berkley Cancels Holocaust Memoir as Author Confesses

December 29, 2008
By Michael Cader

On the quietest Saturday of the year, Berkley cancelled publication of Herman Rosenblat’s ANGEL AT THE FENCE: The True Story of a Love That Survived, scheduled for release in February. In a short statement the publisher, which initially defended the book following a long piece in The New Republic, said the cancellation came “after receiving […]

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Journalist Tries to Verify Boy Soldier's Story

September 22, 2008
By Michael Cader

Journalist Malcolm Knox–who uncovered the lies in Norma Khouri’s book–worked with Sudanese refugee and one-time boy soldier Cola Bilkuei on his book COLA’S JOURNEY and was asked to verify the book’s accuracy. (Just published in Australia, it is not available elsewhere for now.) “So what are we left with? Aside from boy soldiers, a priest […]

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Speaking of Vetting Memoirs

July 31, 2008
By Michael Cader

The NYT takes an interest the forthcoming IN HIS SIGHTS, written under the pseudonym of Kate Brennan, “one of the first full-length memoirs of a stalking victim….The stalking, which continues sporadically today, is at once bizarre, terrifying and, owing to Paul’s deep pockets, maddeningly relentless and difficult to trace, according to the book. It led […]

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Pelosi on Tour; Carr Care

July 30, 2008
By Michael Cader

First female Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was a lot more popular when she signed to write her memoir than she is now as she embarks on a two-week media tour to promote the 174-page memoir, KNOW YOUR POWER: A Message to America’s Daughters. As an LAT story points out, it’s not a political […]

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