I didn't know that Brown was claiming that his book was based on fact. I couldn't get past the first badly-written chapter.
But from what you say here, it sounds as though Brown is cannily catering to that modern obsession with authenticity, that manifests itself in 'reality TV', and the insistence that fiction should be thinly disguised personal memoir (as manifested in the scandals over 'J T Leroy').
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Date: 2006-05-14 08:53 am (UTC)But from what you say here, it sounds as though Brown is cannily catering to that modern obsession with authenticity, that manifests itself in 'reality TV', and the insistence that fiction should be thinly disguised personal memoir (as manifested in the scandals over 'J T Leroy').