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These are the books that made me: books that had a lasting impact on me as a reader, or me as a person, books that define certain eras of my life.

Pittacus Lore drama: 
Pittacus Lore is the YA scifi pseudonym for NYT Bestselling author James Frey. I'd known this for years because I'd googled it once in middle school, but I'd never actually heard of James Frey.... until suddenly this month his name has been EVERYWHERE because he just released a new book which he wrote partially via GenAI--this was not Frey's first controversy (though it was the first time I learned any of it). Frey's fame came from two bestselling memoirs he wrote about his experiences with addiction. However, it turned out that much of the memoirs was completely fabricated.
Then, a few years later Frey had a whole new controversy--this one specifically relating to the Lorien Legacies series. In 2009 Frey created a YA publishing company hoping to capitalize on the YA boom, but he was later outed for extremely limiting and unfair contracts and compensation, when an MFA student leaked their contract. These business practices also occurred while Frey co-wrote the Lorien Legacies with another MFA student in which he got his co-writer fired after a screaming match. Frey has been accused of abusing and using MFA students for cheap underpaid labor.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Frey#controversyvideo 

You can find more info on the AI controversy on social media--the interview in which Frey claimed to use AI seems to have since been deleted and he back tracked that statement in more recent interviews, but I read with my own eyes the interview in which he claimed to have "written" parts of his latest release via GenAI.

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