They tried not to let this book see daylight, and now I know why. I’ve just read Love & Consequences, the story of a white girl who lived the life you only hear about in Dr. Dre songs. This is the fake memoir that scandalized the New York Times last month, when hardened gang moll […]
I just returned after over a week away from home to find a parcel waiting at my doorstep. When I opened it, I jumped for joy.
It’s one of the only available copies of Margaret B. Jones’s Love & Consequences, the gang memoir that was recalled from bookstores for being fake. I hope to blog the […]
Greetings from Washington, D.C. Flung far from my native California to talk about my new book Bad Moon Rising, I found myself on this alien planet, many of whose inhabitants consider it common knowledge that the Washington Times (available around town in cheery orange newsstands marked “Brighter. Bolder”) is published by, of all people, […]
Publishers gave $100,000 to Seltzer (right) but not Kornfeld (left)
Last week, in a major literary scandal, it was revealed that Love & Consequences, a memoir depicting a white teenager living the gangland life of a character in an NWA song, was a fake perpetuated by a woman in middle-class Sherman Oaks, who had, before her […]
