Garance tweets about something Matt Taibbi recently told us: That the misogynistic stories in the book he co-authored with Mark Ames were a giant cosmic joke, sarcasm, and not true at all:
Taibbi says all that awful stuff in book he co-authored was made up. But it was & still is marketed as journalism. https://t.co/iGfUHwOK98 pic.twitter.com/9HhBCg7XsP— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) October 27, 2017
I recommend the third (last) section of my 2016 post (under the title Mark Ames) on wounded young heroes if you want to understand the context of that tweet better.
As Garance mentions in another tweet, the book has been marketed as non-fiction and:
"all of the characters and events depicted in this book are real" https://t.co/Bn3WonD2QZ pic.twitter.com/NrTB2mZVcJ— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) October 27, 2017
My 2016 post asks what wounded young heroines could get away with, in terms of their future careers, and concludes that it wouldn't be much, even if written as a sarcastic giant joke on the world.