New at Reason

David Weigel | July 27, 2006

With no time or money to hire a book packager, Tim Cavanaugh releases his own unedited ramblings on honesty in autobiography.

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|7.27.06 @ 3:01PM|#

This is just so funny. I watched this spate of 'outrageous scandals' and shook my head in wonder - what was so surprising, and what was the big deal? This is just the book industry getting caught at the same sort of banal nonsense that has been standard procedure at all the other entertainment industries for - well, ever.

Can you say Milli Vanilli? Knew you could.

|7.27.06 @ 3:12PM|#

Meanwhile The Onion continually publishes completely fabricated satire that becomes true about 6 months down the road.

|7.27.06 @ 3:14PM|#

As soon as I read "Literary Paper Lions" this morning I said to myself, Tim must be publishing a book and has been frustrated to bitterness by the process. Am I fucking clairvoyant or is Tim that transparent?

|7.27.06 @ 3:25PM|#

It's a sure bet that when Oprah gets her lacies in a bunch about something, and screechily scolds someone on her show as she did with James Frey, it's really not much of a transgression.

The louder they screech, the more they're worried (and rightly so) that nobody's listening and/or gives a rat's ass.

|7.27.06 @ 6:54PM|#

Taken together, this year�s scandals may end the lamentable idea that a memoir is more valuable than a work of fiction

That would be great. While I'm wishing, I should wish for a pony, though. The demand for "inspirational true stories" seems to be insatiable.

|7.28.06 @ 5:11PM|#

Is Gaitskill really considered a "hipster"? After reading "Because they wanted to" I think all the stories except the title one left me with the feeling of "I am far too young to give a crap about any of this"