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6 days agoThe Salt Path movie set to be released in US amid ongoing literary scandal
The film adaptation of The Salt Path will be released in the US on May 22, amid controversy over the author's memoir.
Judge a book by its cover, and you might think that American Canto, the memoir by Vanity Fair's outgoing West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi, is destined to be a classic. The memoir, which chronicles Nuzzi's drama-filled life and career as a political reporter in the Trump era, features a strikingly simple cover that serves as shorthand for the book's ambitions. "The intent was to give the book a clean, no-frills design that felt both classic and contemporary,"
All autobiographies are lies... I mean deliberate lies. The veracity of autobiographical writing is under scrutiny once again following allegations that the bestselling memoir The Salt Path is not quite the unflinchingly honest account of one couple's triumph over adversity as billed.