Straight to Hell

That memoir I wrote about how I was Jewish and survived the Holocaust by trekking across Europe, killing a German soldier, being sheltered by packs of wolves, and escaping the Warsaw Ghetto as a little girl?  Yeah, I mean when I insisted it was true, I meant, you know, I felt Jewish, and that this was my story.   Don’t push your narrow constraints of objective reality on me, man!

7 Comments

  • By Herman Glimscher, February 29, 2008 @ 2:37 pm

    I hope this doesn’t cast doubt on my memoir in which I reveal that I invented the scone while fighting zombies in fin de siecle Paris and ancient Carthage.

  • By Shaft, February 29, 2008 @ 3:58 pm

    The most starting revelation is that she also revealed that she is, in fact, a man, and that her real name is James Frey.

  • By Tim, February 29, 2008 @ 4:16 pm

    She must be one hell of a prose stylist that anyone believed the story in the first place.

  • By Dr J, February 29, 2008 @ 4:27 pm

    Prose stylist. Is that what they’re calling bullshit artists these days?

  • By Tim, February 29, 2008 @ 4:44 pm

    Well, you wouldn’t want to call them “authors” or “memoirists” would you? I forget where I heard that term first, but it made me laugh.

  • By LK, February 29, 2008 @ 4:48 pm

    I just saw that item. Where are the editors????

  • By Meredith, March 1, 2008 @ 3:55 pm

    Incredible…

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