Janice Harayda
1 min readApr 11, 2024

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Your statement that "you will not find me in Manolos in this book" is false. You say on page 187 of my hardcover edition: "I move through the crowd in the spike Manolos I wear far too seldom to handle with any grace." (See link below to your own words.)

Your suggestion that I said you had "brain damage" shows a similarly reckless disregard for the truth. You put words in my mouth that I neither said nor meant. What I was talking about here was the kind of ordinary memory lapses many people have after a night of heavy drinking, which make them unable to remember the next morning certain things that happened the night before. I believe anyone who's ever awakened to think, "Geez, what did I do last night?" will understand this.

This is a request that you revise or remove your comment ASAP. Thank you.

Anyone who wants to confirm that you did, in fact, mention Manolos in this book will find your words online on on Google books:

https://books.google.com/books?id=hr2iEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT128&lpg=PT128&dq=%22spike+Manolos%22+and+Coulter&source=bl&ots=tiaRzN4x_3&sig=ACfU3U38XuhLVTl94bi1E0ewzhEVTt2OUA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi61pT8_7qFAxXUJNAFHX4gCyYQ6AF6BAgSEAM#v=onepage&q=%22spike%20Manolos%22%20and%20Coulter&f=false

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Janice Harayda
Janice Harayda

Written by Janice Harayda

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

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