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Sebastian Horsley: Turned away at Newark Liberty International Airport {Gadling}
Mar 20th 2008 9:57PM Woops, those URLs are:
About Horsley being a convicted criminal, he held meth in the US according to this article:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2267171,00.html
Reuters piece based on press release:
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSL2044701520080320
And the press release for comparison!:
http://www.pr-inside.com/flamboyant-british-writer-denied-entry-r496539.htm
Sebastian Horsley: Turned away at Newark Liberty International Airport {Gadling}
Mar 20th 2008 9:20PM What a fantastic press coup for Harper Collins!
So, right before Easter they manage to get Sebastian Horsley denied entry into the U.S. for being an admitted and convicted criminal and person of "moral turpitude." A bit ironic for someone who once got crucified on a lark...
Harper Collins and editor Carrie Kania didn't waste a moment to get this story into the press, the widely repeated Reuters piece reads curiously like a press release. Maybe it's because it's based on this PR piece?
So, is this just a ploy for making sure Sebastian Horsley's book is noticed? Pretty desperate I'd say, especially after the spate of fake misery memoirs that have been exposed lately. There's an interesting piece in the New York Times about this event, which also casts doubt on the truth of Mr. Horsley's memoir:
"In interviews, though, he has been repeatedly coy about what is real and what is contrived. 'It’s better to be quotable than honest,' he told Time Out London in February. In an interview with The Independent last September, he said: 'I don’t speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet."
During the party last night, the upshot of Sebastian being detained and refused entry for being a sleazeball, wasn't lost on the publishers:
"Of course, the silver lining of the incident did not escape Ms. Kania. A big piece in The New York Times, the kind of Internet buzz money can’t buy …"
Harper Collins PR flacks certainly outdid themselves to promote this miserable dandy and his abhorrent views!
