Too funny! But then, in a culture that seems to accept "West Wing" as the Real-White-House-in-Exile, I guess it's not surprising that flakes like this have ceased to distinguish between reality and their fevered dreams.
Glad the paper tracked him down and caught him. They must be taking lessons in investigative journalism from bloggers!
Timmy the gay Indian Vietman vet.....
So....This guy is basically what you would get by cloning Ward Churchill with some James Frey DNA spliced in ????
Another winner from the creative nonfiction genre.
Another example, an outstanding one, of what the concept of "truth" means to social Marxists.
Another "fake, but accurate" episode?
This A-hole, along with the one busted by Oprah – will be making all memoirs suspect. I hope the public’s usual attention span holds true and they are soon forgotten. My own memoirs will be hitting the stands within a couple months.
shttp://www.laweekly.com/index.php?option=com_lawcontent&&task=view&&id=12468&&Itemid=47
Link to original LA Weekly article referenced to in this article.
It's a long and interesting read. Note than another large publisher-Houghton Mifflin, i.e., not just Ballantine-, is implicated. At issue are questions of Houghton Mifflin passing off fiction as 'memoir' and Barrus, ala' Ward Churchill, representing himself as something that he isn't. AND, the utter failure of Houghton-Mifflin, Esquire,.... to authenticate 'Nasdijj'.
A good bit of the article also explores the issue of non Native Americans hijacking Native American genre.
My dad often admonished me to 'don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you read'. If he was alive today, I suspect he would revise downward.
Another product of Public School values?
Check out this load of baloney, which "Nasdijj" sent to a Salt Lake library. There doesn't appear to be an iota of truth - or truthiness- in it.
What a creep.
http://www.slcreads.com/pages/nasdijj_letter.htm
I never knew you could make a living out of a career writing gay pornography. Must be a lot more fruits out there than we suspect.
It's easier to find a publisher for non-fiction than it is to get a novel published. The other writer, Frey, busted on Oprah.
I wonder how many other authors are selling novels as non-fiction?
We get a number of these hippy, wannabe Indians at the local reserve. They hang around the reserve looking for Indian wisdom and smoke their "peace pipes."
The local Anishinabe tolerate them as a source of amusement and give the wannabe hippys "Indian" names like "Windigo." Annointing these hippys with a name really thrills them and they think they're now accepted. Windigo, by the way, is the name of a forest demon who ambushes wayward travelers and eats their flesh. After the people are done amusing themselves, the hippy is sent west for further "Indian" training.
Wonder if this guy is one of our local graduates.
I'll be damned if I know why, but it's amazing how often they pull this stupid routine.
OH, for heaven's sake! I thought he was an outstanding writer.
Well, he’s got the rig skill set to be a Democrat Party Chairman.
Well, he’s got the right skill set to be a Democrat Party Chairman.
Wannabi /Wannabe tribal credentials.