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by krrrh 1627 days ago
I think it is a response to the accusations of plagiarism and quote fabrication. When he was trying to reclaim respectability he released a companion website to Chasing the Scream that had extensive transcriptions and audio excerpts of source interviews for all direct quotes in the book [0]. It went way beyond what the vast majority of authors do, but it would be nice to see more of that sort of thing in the publishing industry.

[0] https://chasingthescream.com/interviews-2/