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Everything's Fiction
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Have you read the New Yorker piece about Dan Mallory, the editor and writer who wrote, under a pen name, the best-seller "The Woman in the Window," soon to be a major motion picture? The article is about how he's allegedly a serial liar, including insisting for years that he has brain cancer (he doesn't), has a doctorate from Oxford (he doesn't, although he went there), recommended that his publisher release a book submitted pseudonymously by J.K. Rowling (he didn't), worked with Tina Fey (he didn't), his parents are dead (they're very much alive), and various other falsehoods. And his best-seller bears a remarkable resemblance to the plot of a 1995 movie. Which raises the question of how a guy like this manages to get jobs and attain success while being a liar. (Insert Trump joke here.) Do they not do background checks anymore? Anyway, the article's worth a read. (The New Yorker)
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