Ill Repute

In the conclusion of our series on Misery Lit and Literary Fraud, we discuss two more famous cases of fabricated memoir and what our conspicuous consumption of trauma porn tells us about ourselves and the cultural narratives around female suffering.  Contact Us:  illreputepod@gmail.com 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 Support Us:  http://patreon.com/illrepute 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