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Naomi K
Oct 27, 2006
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I was just reading Christopher Barzak's entry on failures of the imagination, where he argues that the text of a book should matter rather than the persona of the author. This entry was made in the context of James Frey and JT Leroy's very public hoaxes on the public. It argues that the text should be more important than the author. If the text is good,…

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