At the bottom of a lengthy but vital critique of O.J. Simpson‘s contribution to If I Did It, which is to say the ghostwritten account of how he might have committed the murders most rational people think he actually committed anyway, Slate‘s Timothy Noah says that he was contacted by Sharlene Martin, the literary agent representing Fred and Kim Goldman, and she told him “the book cover described and reproduced [in his review, and also at left] has since been replaced by another design that hasn’t yet been made public.” Oooooooooh.
How come Noah has a copy of the book, you might ask, if it’s not due out until next week? Easy: He’s working from a copy of the version that Regan Books was all set to publish last fall before HarperCollins pulled the plug—and in that sense, what he’s seen might turn out to be an even purer distillation of “an abusive husband who beat and eventually killed his ex-wife, then laid out his narcissism and self-delusion for all to see” than the Goldman-approved edition with all its expert commentary.