Is there a cure for the fraud and misrepresentation by prominent authors? Bob Hoover suggests that it’s too much of a focus on the writers’ backstories. “The more outrageous the incidents, the darker the personal descent, the more heroic the climb to redemption combined with the acting talent to perform in front of a camera — that’s what makes ‘a writer!’ It doesn’t, of course. I suggest, for a change, that we try getting back to the books themselves and appreciate again the pure experience of reading.”