Who’s sorry now?
Andrew O’Hagan: Michael Finkel gets lucky, 2 June 2005
True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
by Michael Finkel.
Chatto, 312 pp., £15.99, May 2005,0 7011 7688 1 Show More
by Michael Finkel.
Chatto, 312 pp., £15.99, May 2005,
Burning Down My Master’s House
by Jayson Blair.
New Millennium, 288 pp., $24.95, March 2004,9781932407266 Show More
by Jayson Blair.
New Millennium, 288 pp., $24.95, March 2004,
The Journalist and the Murderer
by Janet Malcolm.
Granta, 163 pp., £8.99, January 2004,1 86207 637 5 Show More
by Janet Malcolm.
Granta, 163 pp., £8.99, January 2004,
“... up our stories and in terms of feeling really bad about it afterwards. This new memoir from Michael Finkel streaks across a firmament already glittering with apologetic precedents. Stephen Glass, once a popular and ambitious young thing at the New Republic, invented email addresses and whole companies to hide his deceit, and later went on to invent ... ”