Jason Arday, who resigned from Cambridge last week amid accusations of academic plagiarism and serial fabulism, still became a published Simon & Schuster author this week after the publishing giant released his memoir. The book was meant to inspire readers—and stir profit—through Arday's remarkable life story. But despite targeted 11th-hour editing, the memoir is rife with melodramatic biographical claims that bear remarkable similarity to storylines from Arday's favorite low-brow soap operas, other TV dramas, the Rocky movie franchise, and movies such as Forrest Gump.