Friday, October 8, 2010

I'm shamelessly obsessed with books that gleefully and actively admit they lie

Graham Chapman's autobiography: A Liar's Autobiography (Volume IV) finally arrived!

It's pretty much the House of Leaves of autobiographies. There are multiple authors, who all contradict each other or lie outright and then admit their lies in the footnotes. There are crazy footnotes that include one of the authors asking the others if they can have a day off. And yet amongst the haze of lies are some delightfully vivid truths.

Naturally its arrival led to me starting to read House of Leaves again. This week I'm all about the literature that lies.

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