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11. Brad Phillips, Patricia Highsmith, and Clifford Irving
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Episode 11: Brad Phillips, Patricia Highsmith, and Clifford Irving
Brad Phillips is a Canadian author and fine artist whose recent collection of “Essays and Fictions” (available here) courts with – and immediately undermines – an autobiographical reading, alluding repeatedly to the author’s propensity for half-truths, misdirection, and straight-up grift. While formally reminiscent of Clifford Irving’s Autobiography of Howard Hughes and its “confessional” follow-up, The Hoax, it finds – and pays deeper tribute to –…
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