AMAZON FRACAS
February 1st, 2004
BY MONICA DOBIESOME prominent authors have been unmasked as writing rave reviews for their own books or for colleagues when Amazon.com Canadian website glitch mistakenly revealed the identities of thousands of people who had anonymously posted book reviews. John Rechy, author of the best-selling 1963 novel "City of Night" and winner of the PEN-USA West lifetime achievement award admitted to the New York Times that he submitted a five star review of his own book. Author Dave Eggers admitted writing a review of friend Heidi Julavits' first novel, calling it "one of ...
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