Clancy Martin, chair of the philosophy department at the U. of Missouri at Kansas City, doesn’t miss the luxury-jewelry business. Not even the highly remunerative deception part.Julie Denesha for The Chronicle Review
You’d think I’d get used to being called a liar. After all, I’ve written a candid, semiautobiographical novel about being a scam artist, been interviewed in the media about my former life of lying, cheating, and drinking, even edited a prominent philosophical collection on deception. But when a colleague recently ridiculed me about being known as a liar, my feelings were hurt. I have a new life. I’ve been clean and sober and “rigorously honest” (as we say in AA) for two years. Still, to tell you the truth (honestly!), I earned my reputation fair and square.
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