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- Stranger Than Fiction is an album by various performers, most of whom are professional writers and amateur singers, released in 1998 on Kathi Kamen Goldmark's "Don't Quit Your Day Job" Records. This album is an offshoot of the Rock Bottom Remainders, aka the ("writer" + "rocker"). The artists on Stranger Than Fiction include not only many of the Remainders, such as bestselling authors Stephen King, Amy Tan and Dave Barry, but also rock critics Dave Marsh, Ben Fong-Torres and Greil Marcus, film critic Leonard Maltin and such literary heavyweights as Norman Mailer and Maya Angelou. Warren Zevon contributed liner notes and a variety of famous musicians played on the tracks, including Zevon, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter of the Doobie Brothers, and Jerry Jeff Walker. Proceeds from this project were contributed to a variety of charities promoting literature and literacy. (en)
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- dbr:Robert_Reich
- dbr:Ben_Fong-Torres
- dbr:Bob_Greene
- dbr:Dave_Barry
- dbr:Peggy_Orenstein
- dbr:Norman_Mailer
- dbr:Norris_Church_Mailer
- dbr:Oscar_Hijuelos
- dbr:Blanche_McCrary_Boyd
- dbr:Mary_Mackey
- Amy Tan (en)
- Dave Barry (en)
- Critical Mess, featuring Roy Blount, Jr., and Dave Marsh, with Lou Aronica, Marc Barasch, The Chorelles, Tom Dupree, Tony Goldmark, Matt Groening, and Peter Schneider (en)
- Cynthia Robins and Billy Philadelphia (en)
- Digby Diehl and Kay Diehl (en)
- Molly Ivins, with Jimmy LaFave, Jerry Jeff Walker and friends (en)
- Leonard Maltin with Meg Mackay (en)
- Leonard Maltin with the Android Sisters (en)
- Louis B. Jones, with Kevin Griffin and Nion McEvoy (en)
- Maya Angelou and Jessica Mitford (en)
- Stephen King and Kathi Kamen Goldmark (en)
- Stephen King with Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (en)
- Stephen King, with Warren Zevon (en)
- Susanne Pari (en)
- Walter M. Mayes (en)
- Tananarive P. Due, with Warren Zevon and the Tananarettes (en)
- Roy Blount, Jr., with Jim Campilongo and the Ten-Gallon Cats (en)
- Tomie dePaola, with Harry Choron and Adaire Elizabeth Kamen (en)
- Amy Tan and Kathi Kamen Goldmark, with Wonderbuns Murphy, James W. Hall and Tony Goldmark (en)
- Sandra Choron, Roger Clark, KK Goldmark, Dian Langlois, Bud E. Luv, Greil Marcus, Susanne Pari, Gail Parenteau, Faith Sale, Joel Selvin, and Amy Tan (en)
- Damn Right I Got the Blues, featuring Ken Follett, with Graham Coster, Richard Gillinson, Anthony Harwood, Cefyn Jones, and Marie-Claire Follett (en)
- Molly Ivins, Bob Livingston and Jerry Jeff Walker, with Ron Erwin, KK Goldmark, Tony Goldmark, John Inmon, Jimmy LaFave, Wonderbuns Murphy, Glenn Schuetz, Stewart Cochran, and the Tourettes (en)
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