Oh, I really want to hope this memoir isn't fraudulent... It was so powerful.

Quoted: On Jan. 19, the Australian, Rupert Murdoch's Aussie broadsheet, published a 4,600-word investigation challenging the credibility of the child-soldier memoir A Long Way Gone. Author Ishmael Beah's heart-wrenching account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the two years he spent as a cocaine-addicted teenage killer achieved instant literary acclaim.

It ain't easy being an editor...

Quoted: Late yesterday evening, Margaret B. Jones admitted to the New York Times that Love and Consequences , her critically acclaimed memoir about growing up in a foster home in gang-ridden South Central Los Angeles, was almost entirely fabricated.

Fascinating and important, but I'm still not convinced that the digital book will fully replace the printed one...

Quoted: Despite the opposition of publishers and their lawyers, the world's texts are being electronically copied, digitized, searched and linked.