![]() Her readers obviously don’t care whether her book is fact or fiction. Jenny Lawson’s “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” boasts the straightforward subtitle “A Mostly True Memoir.” Now comes an author who may avoid that outcome by promoting transparency over truth. From James Frey cowering on Oprah’s couch to “This American Life” debating a warning label for David Sedaris’s essays, the universal truth in nonfiction memoirs is that the accuracy of events will, at some point, be questioned. It seems that every so often, a memoir shoots up the charts, only to have its journalistic integrity questioned months later as the pendulum swings from adoration to suspicion. ![]()
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