It’s 90 percent true if you count things that happened to anyone,” he says. “It’s only about half true if you define it as actual things happening to the actual people they happened to.”
So says one of the characters in Ben Mezrich’s book, Bringing Down the House. Bringing Down the House is marketed as [...]
As if the Cassie Edwards’ copying scandal hasn’t demoralized your faith in the publishing industry enough, Ishmael Beah’s bestselling memoir, A Long Way Gone, is the subject of two investigative pieces by The Australian. The first article was published on January 19, 2008, and tells the story about a couple who were keenly [...]
The AP has an interesting story today about Oprah’s recommended reading list. One of the titles that was featured as a “guaranteed page-turner from Oprah’s personal collection” was Forrest Carter’s The Education of Little Tree, a story set in the Great Depression about a young orphan who goes to live with his Cherokee grandparents [...]
A class action lawsuit was brought on behalf of the readers who purchased James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces. A settlement has been approved reimbursing readers who bought the book before it was revealed that the memoir was fictionalized.
Only 1729 purchasers have availed themselves of the refund opportunity. Random House has reserved [...]
According to the NY Times, James Frey has sold his second memoir to Harper Collins for an undisclosed sum of money. I would think that HarperCollins would fact check the heck out of the second memoir, “Bright Shiny Morning”, but whether the public will buy it remains to be seen.
Via NY Times.
Nan Talese, editor and publisher of James Frey’s fictional autobiography called A Million Little Pieces, struck back after enduring months of scorn and anger, much of it fueled by Oprah Winfrey.
Oprah Winfrey featured James Frey on her show and was later appalled to find out that a great deal of the non fiction [...]
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