Misery Lit | 2: Ethics of Exploitation ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling
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In the conclusion of our series on Misery Lit and Literary Fraud, we discuss two more famous cases of fabricated memoir and what our conspicuous consumption of trauma porn tells us about ourselves and the cultural narratives around female suffering.
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Sources https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/khouri-admits-lies-20040818-gdjkm0.html
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/bestsellers-lies-exposed-20040724-gdjerm.html
https://www.theage.com.au/national/khouri-the-troubled-life-of-a-fake-20040731-gdyd40.html
https://australia-explained.com.au/mavericks/helen-demidenkos-hand-that-signed-the-paper
https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/summer09/hoax/
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/from-the-archives-1995-writer-demidenko-revealed-to-be-helen-darville-20200813-p55ldc.html
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v17/n22/peter-craven/diary
https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/14718/
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/09/books/the-unmasking-of-jt-leroy-in-public-hes-a-she.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/health/18well.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/helen-forrester-99jsdx093kk
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/jun/15/childrensservices.biography
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6563529.stm
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/garden/28jones.html
Metdepenningen, Marc.Misha Defonseca’s Confessions, Le Soir. Feb 29, 2008. Accessed March 12, 2024 via Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20080302203827/http://www.lesoir.be/channels/cinema/exclusif-2008-02-28-580849.shtml
Bury, Liz. Tugging at Heart Strongs. Bookseller.com 2/22/2007. Accessed March 7, 2024 via Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080804101600/http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/34722-tugging-at-heart-strings.html
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/bestsellers-lies-exposed-20040724-gdjerm.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/literary-hoaxes-and-the-ethics-of-authorship
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/magazine/dysfunction-for-dollars.html
Lomax, John Nova. Coal Miner Mother of a Mess. Houston Press. Aug 25, 2005.
https://www.houstonpress.com/music/coal-miner-mother-of-a-mess-6548530
In the conclusion of our series on Misery Lit and Literary Fraud, we discuss two more famous cases of fabricated memoir and what our conspicuous consumption of trauma porn tells us about ourselves and the cultural narratives around female suffering.
Contact Us:
illreputepod@gmail.com
Follow Us:
ILL REPUTE! links: http://linktr.ee/illreputepod
Sovereing Syre’s links: http://linktr.ee/sovereignsyre
Ela Darling’s links: http://zez.am/eladarling
Merch:
http://importantadult.com
Support Us:
http://patreon.com/illrepute
Sources https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/khouri-admits-lies-20040818-gdjkm0.html
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/bestsellers-lies-exposed-20040724-gdjerm.html
https://www.theage.com.au/national/khouri-the-troubled-life-of-a-fake-20040731-gdyd40.html
https://australia-explained.com.au/mavericks/helen-demidenkos-hand-that-signed-the-paper
https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/summer09/hoax/
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/from-the-archives-1995-writer-demidenko-revealed-to-be-helen-darville-20200813-p55ldc.html
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v17/n22/peter-craven/diary
https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/14718/
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/09/books/the-unmasking-of-jt-leroy-in-public-hes-a-she.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/health/18well.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/helen-forrester-99jsdx093kk
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/jun/15/childrensservices.biography
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6563529.stm
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/garden/28jones.html
Metdepenningen, Marc.Misha Defonseca’s Confessions, Le Soir. Feb 29, 2008. Accessed March 12, 2024 via Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20080302203827/http://www.lesoir.be/channels/cinema/exclusif-2008-02-28-580849.shtml
Bury, Liz. Tugging at Heart Strongs. Bookseller.com 2/22/2007. Accessed March 7, 2024 via Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080804101600/http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/34722-tugging-at-heart-strings.html
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/bestsellers-lies-exposed-20040724-gdjerm.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/literary-hoaxes-and-the-ethics-of-authorship
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/magazine/dysfunction-for-dollars.html
Lomax, John Nova. Coal Miner Mother of a Mess. Houston Press. Aug 25, 2005.
https://www.houstonpress.com/music/coal-miner-mother-of-a-mess-6548530
1 hr 9 min