Misery lit (English Wikipedia)

Szmigiero, Katarzyna (2018). "Misery Lit - A Recent Fad or a Genre with Long-standing Traditions?". Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich. 61 (3(127)). Retrieved October 29, 2025.

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Maechler, Stefan (July 29, 2009). The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-49324-8.

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Eskin, Blake (August 18, 2008). "The Girl Who Cried Wolf: A Holocaust Fairy Tale". Boston Magazine. Retrieved October 27, 2025.

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"Untrue Stories — Bostonia Summer 2009". www.bu.edu. Retrieved January 12, 2026.

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Multiple Personality Disorder - You're Wrong About. October 1, 2018. Retrieved June 23, 2025 – via yourewrongabout.buzzsprout.com.
Quarantine Book Club: "Michelle Remembers" (Week 1) - You're Wrong About. March 26, 2020. Retrieved June 23, 2025 – via yourewrongabout.buzzsprout.com.

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"Oprah Feels 'Duped' By Author Frey - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. January 26, 2006. Retrieved November 13, 2025.

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"Publisher Withdraws Satanism Story". Christianity Today. February 19, 1990. Retrieved October 27, 2025.

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Bates, Victoria (June 1, 2012). "'Misery Loves Company': Sexual Trauma, Psychoanalysis and the Market for Misery". Journal of Medical Humanities. 33 (2): 61–81. doi:10.1007/s10912-012-9172-x. ISSN 1573-3645.
Horowitz, Mark; Yaworsky, William; Kickham, Kenneth (October 2019). "Anthropology's Science Wars: Insights from a New Survey". Current Anthropology. 60 (5): 674–698. doi:10.1086/705409. ISSN 0011-3204.

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Rothe, Anne (2011). "Popular Trauma Culture : Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media 9780813551289, 9780813551296, 2010049961". dokumen.pub. Retrieved October 29, 2025.

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Sorooshian, Roxanne (June 17, 2007). "First Words". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved March 6, 2008.^{[dead link]}

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"Gay Sincerity Is Scary". Gawker. September 9, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2026.

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Self, Will. "A Posthumous Shock: How everything became trauma". Harper's Magazine. Vol. December 2021. ISSN 0017-789X. Retrieved January 22, 2026.

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Barnes, Anthony (March 4, 2007). "Mis Lit: Misery is book world's biggest boom sector". The Independent. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved March 6, 2008.
"How a doctor and his patient sparked a global 'Satanic Panic'". The Independent. March 14, 2023. Retrieved October 27, 2025.

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Hegarty, Shane (October 8, 2007). "Not Without My Receipt: One Boy's Horrific Story of Surviving A Trip to the Bookshop". The Ireland Times. Retrieved March 6, 2008.

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Miller, Alyson (2012). "The Pornography of Trauma: Faking Identity in Misery Memoirs". Retrieved January 18, 2026.

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Gilbride, Jeff (May 18, 2008). "How a touching memoir became a shocking fraud". MetroWest Daily News. Retrieved January 12, 2026.

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Sehgal, Parul (December 27, 2021). "The Case Against the Trauma Plot". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved January 14, 2026.
Franklin, Ruth (March 20, 2017). "Jerzy Kosinski's Traumas, Real and Invented". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
Sloan, James Park (October 3, 1994). "Kosinski's War". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved October 27, 2025.

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"Nobel Peace Prize 1992". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved January 22, 2026.

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Liu, Catherine (February 16, 2023). "The Problem With Trauma Culture". Noema. Retrieved January 16, 2026.

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Jordan, Pat (July 28, 2002). "Dysfunction for Dollars". The New York Times. Retrieved April 15, 2009.
"Tarnished Laureate: A special report.; Nobel Winner Finds Her Story Challenged". New York Times. December 15, 1998. Retrieved October 27, 2025.

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"Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved January 22, 2026.

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Hadjimatheou, Chloe (July 5, 2025). "The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation". The Observer. Retrieved January 12, 2026.
Fairney, Amelia (July 13, 2025). "The Salt Path revelations should be no surprise to anyone in publishing". The Observer. Retrieved January 12, 2026.

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Shewan, Dan (September 8, 2015). "Conviction of Things Not Seen: The Uniquely American Myth of Satanic Cults". Pacific Standard. Retrieved November 13, 2025.

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Mariani, Mike (March 22, 2017). "Nativism, Violence, and the Origins of the Paranoid Style". Slate.

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Jones, Nigel (July 8, 2025). "Why we wanted to believe The Salt Path". The Spectator. Retrieved January 12, 2026.

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West, Ed (March 5, 2008). "Mis lit: Is this the end for the misery memoir?". The Telegraph UK. Archived from the original on March 6, 2008. Retrieved March 6, 2008.

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"A Little Life and misery lit: Have we finally suffered enough?". The Independent. April 3, 2023. Retrieved January 14, 2026.
"When it comes to the Salt Path scandal, we only have ourselves to blame". The Independent. July 11, 2025. Retrieved January 12, 2026.

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Lewis, Helen (March 16, 2021). "The Identity Hoaxers". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 27, 2025.

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Forsyth, Alex (January 23, 2008). "Addicted to Misery". Nouse. Archived from the original on August 4, 2008. Retrieved March 6, 2008.
Bury, Liz (February 22, 2007). "Tugging at Heart Strings". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on August 4, 2008. Retrieved March 6, 2008.

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Flood, Alison (December 1, 2008). "The jury is still out on misery memoirs". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 29, 2025.
Addley, Esther (June 15, 2007). "So Bad It's Good". The Guardian. Retrieved March 6, 2008.
Bedell, Geraldine (September 2, 2001). "Child Abuse as Entertainment". The Guardian. Archived from the original on October 22, 2018. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
Needham, Alex (March 11, 2023). "'Torture porn or serious literature?': the love-hate phenomenon of cult novel A Little Life". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved January 22, 2026.
"Fragments of a fraud". The Guardian. October 15, 1999. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
Day, Elizabeth (February 15, 2009). "When one extraordinary life story is not enough". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
Clark, Alex (August 2, 2025). "The end of the road? What The Salt Path scandal means for the nature memoir". The Guardian. Retrieved January 12, 2026.
Rowland, Katherine (December 14, 2025). "'They're selling everything as trauma': how our emotional pain became a product". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved January 16, 2026.

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Buchanan, Lucy (November 10, 2022). "A Culture of 'Misery Porn'". The Saint. Retrieved January 14, 2026.

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"A Million Little Lies". The Smoking Gun. July 23, 2010. Retrieved October 27, 2025.

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"Helen Forrester". The Times. December 3, 2011.
Thomas-Corr, Johanna (July 10, 2025). "How the Salt Path fiasco happened — insiders on the crisis in publishing". The Times. Retrieved January 12, 2026.
"What the Salt Path fiasco tells us about publishing". The Times. July 11, 2025. Retrieved January 12, 2026.

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Horowitz, Mark; Yaworsky, William; Kickham, Kenneth (October 2019). "Anthropology's Science Wars: Insights from a New Survey". Current Anthropology. 60 (5): 674–698. doi:10.1086/705409. ISSN 0011-3204.

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Bedell, Geraldine (September 2, 2001). "Child Abuse as Entertainment". The Guardian. Archived from the original on October 22, 2018. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
Forsyth, Alex (January 23, 2008). "Addicted to Misery". Nouse. Archived from the original on August 4, 2008. Retrieved March 6, 2008.
Bury, Liz (February 22, 2007). "Tugging at Heart Strings". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on August 4, 2008. Retrieved March 6, 2008.
Tavris, Carol. "Multiple Personality Deception". WSJ. Archived from the original on November 18, 2015. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
West, Ed (March 5, 2008). "Mis lit: Is this the end for the misery memoir?". The Telegraph UK. Archived from the original on March 6, 2008. Retrieved March 6, 2008.

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Flood, Alison (December 1, 2008). "The jury is still out on misery memoirs". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 29, 2025.
Sehgal, Parul (December 27, 2021). "The Case Against the Trauma Plot". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved January 14, 2026.
Needham, Alex (March 11, 2023). "'Torture porn or serious literature?': the love-hate phenomenon of cult novel A Little Life". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved January 22, 2026.
Bates, Victoria (June 1, 2012). "'Misery Loves Company': Sexual Trauma, Psychoanalysis and the Market for Misery". Journal of Medical Humanities. 33 (2): 61–81. doi:10.1007/s10912-012-9172-x. ISSN 1573-3645.
Franklin, Ruth (March 20, 2017). "Jerzy Kosinski's Traumas, Real and Invented". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
Sloan, James Park (October 3, 1994). "Kosinski's War". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
"Fragments of a fraud". The Guardian. October 15, 1999. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
Day, Elizabeth (February 15, 2009). "When one extraordinary life story is not enough". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
Horowitz, Mark; Yaworsky, William; Kickham, Kenneth (October 2019). "Anthropology's Science Wars: Insights from a New Survey". Current Anthropology. 60 (5): 674–698. doi:10.1086/705409. ISSN 0011-3204.
Self, Will. "A Posthumous Shock: How everything became trauma". Harper's Magazine. Vol. December 2021. ISSN 0017-789X. Retrieved January 22, 2026.
Rowland, Katherine (December 14, 2025). "'They're selling everything as trauma': how our emotional pain became a product". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved January 16, 2026.

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Tavris, Carol. "Multiple Personality Deception". WSJ. Archived from the original on November 18, 2015. Retrieved June 23, 2025.

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