In publishing, there is a fascinating history of memoirs that get pulled from publication after an eagle-eyed reader or readers, have their hinky meter go off. The pesky peruser finds the facts or spots the substantial inconsistencies — that ultimately prove that the orphaned foster child (who supposedly grew up in a gang-infested barrio in east L.A) is actually a private school kid from Newport Beach. Then there was that Jordanian on the run, after witnessing her best friend’s honor killing, who was actually a con artist from Illinois. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/05/forbidden-lie-rewatched-disturbing-character-study-of-a-con-artist And so on. I now know of one that you won’t hear about because I’m pretty sure I was the pesky peruser — who made the deal go kaput before publication. Stef Willen’s manuscript (IRONICALLY titled- Total Loss: An Inventory of Disaster, Theirs and Mine, ) was set to go before being pulled days before publication. It had an ISBN number, an e...