Dan Mallory: The Good Liar
Missing Pages: An Investigative Podcast on the Book Publishing Industry
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The Dan Mallory's of the World and the Apathetic Publishing Industry
The comedy directly spoofed both the plot of Dan's best-selling novel and perhaps more insidiously weaved some of his notorious pathological lies, almost like Easter eggs. From what a cursory Google search shows, Dan is still slated to release a second book as part of his initial deal. Other than the bombshell New Yorker article by Ian Parker and the momentary social media outrage it inspired, there haven't been any real consequences for our dear Dan. If you're like me and you love books and the people who make them, something about all of this shouldn't sit right. We may not be able to put a proper name to one of Dan's victims, but he keeps signing
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