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Copy­right 2006 Ben S. Pol­lock The dif­fer­ence between fic­tion and fact Fri­day 13 Jan­u­ary 2006. I won’t do them the favor of hyper­link­ing these mem­oirists, James Frey and JT LeRoy. But there’s the names and here’s a news search engine. Mem­oirs are auto­bi­ogra­phies and fac­tual. The books by these men have been outed as not being …

Copy­right 2006 Ben S. Pol­lock Tues­day 10 Jan­u­ary 2006. P.J. O’Rourke, in review­ing the novel Dog Days by Ana Marie “Won­kette” Cox last Sun­day for The Wash­ing­ton Post, wrote: “Cre­ative writ­ing teach­ers should be purged until every last instruc­tor who has uttered the words ‘Write what you know’ is con­fined to a labor camp. Please, …

Copy­right 2006 Ben S. Pol­lock Sur­pass­ing expec­ta­tions by accept­ing lim­its Wednes­day 4 Jan­u­ary 2006. Last issue, The New Yorker praised James Agee. Actu­ally, it was New Yorker movie critic David Denby. (If I don’t always agree with Denby, he’s about the only cur­rent writer who every once in a while drops in a sen­tence or …