Go Ask Alice/Frauds General

Who even cares if it's a "lie"? Oprah? A bunch of moms? Jokes on them for being exposed as a bunch of idiots. Just write whatever soppy trash and make yourself look like a tragedy and they'll eat it up. They can't deliberate on a book's or any other work of art's merits with a shred of objectivity. The book should have been panned for being garbage in the first place.

The people preoccupied with authors are ridiculous. The story of the author itself means absolutely nothing in a discussion of a work's aesthetics. There is only the work compared alongside the author's other works. I have zero interest in judging anyone's life.

Why are women so preoccupied with women and minority authors? Simple, because they don't understand art. This was acclaimed in an era when we hadn't quite reached the 'all white men are shitlords' nadir we are at right now. Back then it was enough to simply be pathetic. Now if you're a white male drug addict they probably wouldn't give a rat's ass if you overdosed and died in a ditch. A negress stubs her toe? What a tragedy! Buy the book!

this chick's from the publisher milo originally sent his book too kek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VkxTRTJ-s4

if you want another one after that, author: the jt leroy story, is some schizo shit complete with dennis cooper and billy corgan as side players

personally love this kind of shit. angry penguins getting all the modernists fired up isn't some shit we should relegate to the past. it's too much fun.

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pic related was a pile of shit but helped spawn a moral panic in the US.

>>9613919
sybil too.

making monsters by ofshe and watters does a good job detailing the combined panic they caused

>>9613930
Forgot about Sybil. I'll have to check out Making Monsters. I read We Believe the Children by Richard Beck last year and found the whole situation really interesting.

>>9613961
it's fucking insane and i recommend it though it gets a bit repetitive now and then.

if you tried the shit the doctors did to the patients they treated on POWs, you'd be a war criminal. there's a priceless bit when they quote the ringleaders talking full conspiracy at national psychiatric conferences before their modified view after the FBI investigation. they worked out roughly how much it cost in therapy and courts and everything else, it's probably one of the more expensive panics in history. lots of them are still working too.

bumping for more hoax lit

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>The Taxil Hoax was the greatest hoax perpetuated in French history; a twelve year long event that took advantage of the religious and political tensions existing in post-revolutionary France while exploiting the French Satanic zeitgeist of the 19th Century to dubious ends.

>The roots of the Taxil Hoax can be traced to the Syllabus of Errors, an incredibly reactionary document published by Pope Pius IX in 1864 in an attempt to stem further erosion of the Church’s authority in an increasingly secular society. It essentially renounced any and all liberalisms that came out of the Enlightenment as “satanic.” In 1878, Pius IX’s reign ended and in 1878 Leo XIII was named Pope. In 1884 Leo XIII issued his own encyclical entitled Humanum genus that was no less inflammatory than his predecessor’s work. In it he divided humanity into those who serve the “kingdom of God” and those who serve the “kingdom of Satan.” Furthermore, he argued, “the partisans of evil seem to be combining together, and to be struggling with united vehemence, led on or assisted by that strongly organized and widespread association called the Freemasons.”

>Enter Léo Taxil. Taxil was a journalist who despised religion, particularly Catholicism. He had written satires mocking the Church and Christianity in general, and in 1881 attacked Pius IX with the semi-pornographic book The Secret Loves of Pius IX. For that work he was accused of libel. That same year he joined a Masonic lodge in Paris. He remained with the lodge for only a year, before leaving the Freemasons. Purely for amusement’s sake, according to Taxil, he hatched a plan to undermine both the Church and the Freemasons, and in the years that followed his plot began to unfold.

>Following the publication of Leo XIII’s anti-masonic encyclical, Taxil made a very public showing of his (fraudulent) conversion to Catholicism in which he renounced his prior works and apologized for the harm caused the Church. The Church received him proudly with open arms, believing they had won over one of their most vocal and virulent foes.

>In the years that followed, Taxil produced a four-part history of Freemasonry that included fake eyewitness testimony of Masonic ceremonies performed for the glorification of their true lord and master Satan. Often these rites were sexual in nature. Following these works, Taxil produced a work titled Devil in the Nineteenth Century that introduced to the world a woman who came to be known as Diana Vaughan. Vaughan was purported to be a descendant of a union between English Rosicrucian Thomas Vaughan and the goddess Astarte. She was also allegedly a Satanic priestess who presided over the secret Masonic order know as the Palladium; the innermost secret Satanic society that controlled the Freemasons, whose end goal, of course, was world domination.

http://www.cvltnation.com/french-satanism-part-four-taxil-hoax-shape-things-come/

>>9615221
kek that reminded me of this

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountains_of_Kong

>Despite the failure of other later explorers to locate the range, it continued to appear on maps until late in the nineteenth century.
nearly 200 years after it started, Goode's Atlas published them again in 1995.

Stolen Soul by Bernie Holstein written by a Auschwitz survivor that had actually never left Australia. Him and a few other children escape, are saved by wolves, but he is eventually recaptured. The evil Nazi scientists have some stupid plan involving Jewish semen and made masturbating machines that would often kill the subjects.

Funny, a comedian had a bit about that book being fake as well
https://youtu.be/Zk_-u0wejk8

Oh shit I just made a thread asking about novels based on hoaxes. Anyway that's more fictional than memoir, but the Sokal affair is worth looking into.