All Points
A blog about American culture, with new posts each Monday by William Deresiewicz, author of A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter.
Fiction’s Revenge - Feb. 19, 2012
Everybody always gets enraged when one of those sensational memoirs—I was a teenage transgendered prostitute; I was a part-white, part-Native American foster child in South-Central Los Angeles; I was fed through a concentration camp fence by a little girl whom I accidentally met again, and married, years later—turns out to be a hoax.
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- Fiction’s Revenge
- Occupy the Myth
- @FranzKafka
- Generational Conflict
- Settling Accounts
- On the Beach
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Assholes
- False Religion
- Thank You for Your Service
- In Memoriam
- Dreams from Yo Mama
- Trading Up
- Repressed
- Yankee Come Home
- Why We Fight
- 9/11 + 9:30
- You Say Latino
- Present at the Creation
- Parade’s End
- Us Slaveholders
- Subway Seminar
- Apollo’s Creed
- Jacob and Esau
- Get Used to It
- New York Journal
- In a State
- The Building Is Beige
- Mother and Father Reunion
- The Greatest Generation
- Two Girls, True and False
- Victims' Wrongs
- Words to Live By
- Shiny, All-Too-Shiny
- Metaphors We Play By
- The Problem with the Problem of Evil
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- A White Dwarf of Meaning
- The Pet Gene
- Yankees
- The True Church
