James Frey, cont'd

Nice.  I mean, I'm sure Oprah's reversal on her support of Frey was based on the public's reaction, but, still, good for her.

More here.  Of course, it's probably going to end up selling more books for him, which kind of sucks.

Comments

[Sanya]

He attempted to sell it as a piece of fiction first, and then took it back to the same publisher and sold it as non-fiction, without any sort of disclaimer from the publisher on the book. I would not go around exclaiming that because he lied, his book sucks. His book is good. I don't care whether it's fact or fiction.

[PG]

The NYTimes headline kinda weirded me out: "Ms. Winfrey Takes a Guest to the Televised Woodshed." I think it's just because somehow it got muddled in my head with Falwell's outhouse.

[D]

I agree with Sanya, the book is still good. On the otherhand, lying about it still botheres me.

[Erin]

I get really pissy about all this wah-wah he lied stuff; a lot of the greatest biographies ever written were packed with lies & it should be really obvious to anyone that really loves to read that sometimes the truth isn't in the facts but in the message...Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali are the first examples that come to my mind of people who totally made up their life histories.