FREE JAMES FREY! In defense of the post-truth memoir
Why bother with accuracy when the feelings are real? Was it three hours in an empty office, or three months behind bars? Doesn’t matter! What the writer felt when the stuff that really happened was going on is exactly the same as what his character feels when stuff that didn’t really happen goes on in the book. And that’s what the reader feels. Keep up with me here…
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Fuckin’ Jerry
Brilliant. 😉
~M~
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“They didn’t have memoirs back then”?
HE ACTUALLY SAID THAT?
Fug.
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That is, indeed, mind-boggling.
The silver lining here is that we get this wonderful response from Stahl:
“It’s not easy sitting with your feet in the fire on national TV, and the “memoirs-were-just-invented” defense was a gutsy way to play it. When I have to think on my feet, I tend to start babbling in Yiddish and blame Himmler.”
Which, I think, is what I’m going to do next time this comes up.
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I wrote this before I read yours.
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that’s a link to my journal, up above…..
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