Who's Afraid of Fake Memoirists?
Ben Crair is an associate editor at The Daily Beast.
Another memoirist-a baseball player-came under scrutiny this week. But don't listen to those who say we're living in an age of James Frey and JT LeRoy. We're living in an age where we're finally adept enough to catch them.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
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