Misery Lit | 1: Memoir Meets Marketing

Misery Literature is a genre of memoir that details the real-life struggles and adversities of individuals, focusing particularly on themes of abuse, poverty, addiction, and survival against the odds. They are usually harrowing stories of the author's survival through complex trauma, usually told from the first person perspective, which generally end in, if not a happy conclusion, at least a ray of hope as the abuse cycle is broken...but when Tragedy becomes profitable, charlatans reach for their quills.  Support Us:  http://patreon.com/illrepute Contact Us:  [email protected] Follow Us:  ILL REPUTE! links: http://linktr.ee/illreputepod Sovereing Syre’s links: http://linktr.ee/sovereignsyre Ela Darling’s links: http://zez.am/eladarling Merch:  http://importantadult.com Sources https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/khouri-admits-lies-20040818-gdjkm0.html https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/bestsellers-lies-exposed-20040724-gdjerm.html https://www.theage.com.au/national/khouri-the-troubled-life-of-a-fake-20040731-gdyd40.html https://australia-explained.com.au/mavericks/helen-demidenkos-hand-that-signed-the-paper https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/summer09/hoax/ https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/from-the-archives-1995-writer-demidenko-revealed-to-be-helen-darville-20200813-p55ldc.html https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v17/n22/peter-craven/diary https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/14718/ https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/09/books/the-unmasking-of-jt-leroy-in-public-hes-a-she.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/health/18well.html https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/helen-forrester-99jsdx093kk https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/jun/15/childrensservices.biography http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6563529.stm https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/garden/28jones.html Metdepenningen, Marc.Misha Defonseca’s Confessions, Le Soir. Feb 29, 2008. Accessed March 12, 2024 via Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20080302203827/http://www.lesoir.be/channels/cinema/exclusif-2008-02-28-580849.shtml Bury, Liz. Tugging at Heart Strongs. Bookseller.com 2/22/2007. Accessed March 7, 2024 via Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20080804101600/http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/34722-tugging-at-heart-strings.html https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/bestsellers-lies-exposed-20040724-gdjerm.html https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/literary-hoaxes-and-the-ethics-of-authorship https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/magazine/dysfunction-for-dollars.html Lomax, John Nova. Coal Miner Mother of a Mess. Houston Press. Aug 25, 2005.  https://www.houstonpress.com/music/coal-miner-mother-of-a-mess-6548530