Wow. As travesty goes, that one's lovely. I got to tell my wife about it and watch her eyes get wide.
Anyone want to start a pool on what legal penalties Ms. Jar-jareo is going to have to pay out?
When I was in college, I took a course in "Creative Non-fiction" with Richard Currey. He defined creative non-fiction by sayin' "you don't make all of it up." Reading this thread, I kept thinking of him.
In the end, though, I think I have to throw in with Patrick's comment from Mr. Delany. Edge cases probably aren't the most illuminating things to argue about in a case like this. If Frey wants to slap "A Novel" on his memoir and call it fiction, then by all means. Until then, it's some flavor of creative non-fiction to me. Maybe meta-memoir: "Drug addicts often fail to self-report accurately! Who'd have guessed?"
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