Peter Handke has just illustrated why we can't trust what he writes or says. In an interview with Die Zeit today, he rants against a story on the Bosnia war that he says was written by David Rieff. One problem -- @davidrieff didn't write the story. zeit.de/2019/48/peter-…
"Journalistic literature is a bastard of the worst kind," Handke says. As an example, he cites a New Yorker story written by "Susan Sontag's son" -- that would be David Rieff. Handke says the article begins, "Harry N. got ethnically cleansed while playing cards with friends" 
Rieff is the author of a terrific book on the Bosnia war, "Slaughterhouse," and in 1996 he reviewed Handke's "A Journey to the Rivers" and basically demolished it. So Handke doesn't like him much. But the New Yorker story Handke refers to was written by ... William Finnegan.
Peter Handke is the winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature.
I would like to be able to find it amusing that Peter Handke has for decades ranted against Bosnia war reporters he says we should never trust, but he can't get straight which war reporters we are not supposed to trust. Instead, he gets it wrong, of course.
