Book review in the Waterloo Record

Another medium-sized Canadian daily newspaper has weighed in on FAKE. Despite the title, this really isn't a bad review from the Waterloo Record. The critic just didn't seem to think what I did was particularly wrong, and thought I should have defended myself more stridently in the book. This isn't the first time I've encoutered this opinion, and it won't be the last. If I'd written FAKE several years before I did, I might have taken a more defensive stance, and tried to convince readers that the consequences of my actions outweighed the harm I caused. But time has given me a different perspective, and I wouldn't have been writing honestly if I'd made excuses for what I did. I wasn't a serial killer and I didn't lure old ladies into bogus investment scams, but my art frauds were nevertheless deplorable in their own way, and I deserved to be taken down for them. For the record, the way I wrote about this in the book had nothing to do with my plea bargain.

You can read the review online here, or see what it looked like in print here.