Topic: Margaret Seltzer

Cusi Cram

Time Out New York - 917 days ago
If playwright Cusi Cram wants to mine her life for drama, she's got a fair amount to work with. Emma (played by Jennifer Westfeldt in the Primary Stages world premiere) comes from famous, artsy WASP parents, but virtually disowns them in ...

Memoirs Full of Lies

Suite 101 - 1422 days ago
Not only was Margaret A. Jones really Margaret Seltzer; she was white, had attended private school, grown up with her birth parents, and had never been a member of a gang.. Two years ago readers and publishers were shocked when James Frey ...

White gang-banger memoir is bull***t

Beliefnet - 1443 days ago
When I read this gushy New York Times feature about the white girl who grew up in South Central L.A. with a black family, and who grew up as a gang-banger, then wrote " In a sometimes tearful, often contrite telephone interview ...