Live on 'Oprah,' a Memoirist Is Kicked Out of the Book Club - New York Times
Did some checking - yup his publisher, Nan Talese is wife of writer Gay Talese.
How about publishers as pimps trying to sell writers wares to the public.
Follow the money!
NYO - Cover Story 2:
"The Awful Untruth
Nan Talese Says James Frey
Never Called Book Fiction"
"Not surprisingly, the scandal has only been good for business. According to a source at the company, Doubleday just went back to press on A Million Little Pieces in hardcover (the popular explanation is that the recent intrigue has prompted those who own the book in paperback to want it in hardcover, too)."
The vast divide between critics, journalists and nonfiction writers horrified by Mr. Frey’s unapologetic misrepresentation of himself, and members of the publishing industry who have cynically shrugged it off, was evident within the confines of Ms. Talese’s own Bermuda hotel room. As Ms. Talese was speaking, her husband was pacing in the background, interjecting the occasional remark. Before handing the phone over to his wife and temporarily leaving the room, Mr. Talese said that what Mr. Frey had done was unacceptable.
“We do not want people to intrude upon our world of nonfiction, saying they’re nonfiction writers when they want the benefits of nonfiction, and then to take off and do what would more properly be called fiction, or exaggeration or falsification,” said Mr. Talese, who characterized his own upcoming book, A Writer’s Life, as a memoir."
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