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... And then she began again. James Lasdun is a writer who ... This essay is adapted from his new book, Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked, to be pu
by geoka9 14y ago
... And then she began again.
James Lasdun is a writer who ... This essay is adapted from his new book, Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked, to be published next month by ...
I can't help but feel that I've been had.
- DigitalJack 14y agoMy feelings exactly.
- projectileboy 14y agoEssay != fiction. Magazines publish excerpts from books that are about to be published, or have recently been published. In addition, writers try to sell their work, whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
- klenwell 14y agoI have to admit I had the same feeling. In the book that inspired a movie based on a true story, Nareen is James Lasdun writing a memoir while stalking a student named Nareen.
- lambda 14y agoIf you take a look at his Wikipedia page, you will find the kind of defacement he discusses in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Lasdun&diff=191599529&oldid=191539044 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Lasdun&d... "He has no integrity. He sells students' fiction to half-assed writers for personal profit and political reasons and makes it obvious because he's a psychotic who hates women and loves money. He is a rapist and sadist." Now, while there's always the slim chance that he could have defaced his own page back in 2008 just to make it support a fake memoir about being stalked, it sounds a lot more likely that the stalking was real. This is a promotional excerpt from his book, designed to entice you to buy it. Yes, he leaves out the ending in order to get you to buy the book. That doesn't mean that the book is a work of fiction.
- vitno 14y agoMore edits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/71.138.91.76 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/71.138.91...