"My Holocaust Memoir," AWP, Aztecs
In the Shouts & Murmurs column of the most recent issue of The New Yorker, Ben Greenman contributes the latest addition--an amusing one--to the discourse surrounding the spate of faked memoirs, to wit:
My paper for the upcoming AWP conference in Chicago has to be, alas, a much more serious treatment of the issue of invention in the genre of memoir.
I'm looking forward to the conference, but I'm really looking forward to seeing my cousin Mike and his partner Chris, who live in Chicago, and I'm also hoping to get the chance to sneak off to see the Field Museum's wildly extensive Aztec exhibit.
If you'll be at the conference, let me know in advance--maybe we can connect!
Dear Ms. Winfrey,"My Holocaust Memoir" is pretty funny--check it out.
I am a great admirer of your show, and, while I do not watch every day, when I do watch I am always touched in or near my heart. . . . I was born in Chicago in 1969. Shortly afterward, in 1941, my entire family was rounded up by the authorities. . . .
My paper for the upcoming AWP conference in Chicago has to be, alas, a much more serious treatment of the issue of invention in the genre of memoir.
I'm looking forward to the conference, but I'm really looking forward to seeing my cousin Mike and his partner Chris, who live in Chicago, and I'm also hoping to get the chance to sneak off to see the Field Museum's wildly extensive Aztec exhibit.
If you'll be at the conference, let me know in advance--maybe we can connect!
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