Authors Brooklyn Librarians: Frey’s a Fiction Writer By Neal on Jan. 27, 2006 - 4:45 PM GalleyCat has just recieved an anonymous tip, which we’ve been able to independently confirm, that the Brooklyn Public Library has changed its classification for James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces from its original D ...
Authors Nasdijj’s “Navahoax” Gets Weirder By Neal on Jan. 27, 2006 - 11:57 AM As James Frey slinks off with his millions, we can all start to move on to the next amazing fake writer, “Nasdijj”/Timothy Barrus, whose web of deception started unraveling earlier this week. In the aftermath of the LA ...
Bookselling Battle of the D.C. Sex Scandal Pastiches By Neal on Jan. 27, 2006 - 11:29 AM Earlier this week, in noting the non-bestselling track record of Dog Days, I observed aloud that I had forgotten to ask about the comparative performance of Jessica Cutler’s The Washingtonienne during its opening weeks last ...
Publishing Publishing Tidbits, or there’s more to life than James Frey By Carmen on Jan. 27, 2006 - 9:34 AM Because there’s more to publishing than one powerful woman’s smackdown of her formerly pet author on live TV… Remember the “secret summit” between UK agents and publishers? Well, it happened, and the ...
Authors Freywatch: the fallout continues By Carmen on Jan. 27, 2006 - 9:17 AM Keeping track of who’s saying what about yesterday’s Oprah show is an exhausting endeavor so it only seems fair to do so in kind of a kamikaze, haphazard fashion. The most comprehensive coverage of the whole thing, not ...
Publishing So how hard is it to fact check anyway? By Carmen on Jan. 27, 2006 - 8:42 AM That’s what Newsweek’s Malcolm Jones wants to know: Fact-checking is a routine part of almost every news operation. Publishers with worries about a manuscript they plan to publish may question an author, and they may r ...
Authors Switching from memoir to novel By Carmen on Jan. 27, 2006 - 8:41 AM When L’Affaire Frey broke big, Martha Sherrill wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post about the whole business because it proved to hit uncomfortably close to home — but for the opposite reasons, as she tells the Seattl ...
Publishing Freywatch: so *now* the publishers get contrite! By Carmen on Jan. 26, 2006 - 5:56 PM I guess since Nan Talese got totally schooled on Oprah today (and who was the mystery cell phone caller, anyway?) Random House felt they had to do some serious damage control. In a statement released this afternoon, the Book Stand ...
Authors James Frey Gets His, Takes It Like Man(?) By Neal on Jan. 26, 2006 - 5:15 PM Hoo boy: I’m not going to be able to see Oprah until late tonight, but I hear from Gawker and now from Edward Wyatt that she’s superpissed. Wyatt’s calling today’s episode “an extraordinary reversal o ...
Authors Where’s Our Invite, Oprah? By Neal on Jan. 26, 2006 - 9:10 AM An early-evening email from PW Daily notified us that James Frey’s going to be on today’s episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show to do a more extensive job of licking her boots in person than he did over the phone on Larry ...