It’s not surprising that the NYT would want to hop on the so-called “literary celebrity” bandwagon with this side-by-side comparison of Nicole Richie’s faux-memoir THE TRUTH ABOUT DIAMONDS and 50 Cent’s upcoming G-Unit line of books and graphic novels. And the comparisons are fun, but much more so are Richie’s one-liners.
On why she wrote the book: she could have opted for memoir, but “it’s more exciting if you make things up.”
How did she write the book? “I just did what my dad does, which is carry around a tape recorder, and when I got ideas I just spoke into the recorder.” (that might be news to the person who actually cobbled these disparate tape recordings into an actual book…)
And the best of all: “I’m hoping that—that people will just act like adults and take it for what it is. And it’s a story. It’s a fiction novel.”
Actually, Nicole, that’s fictional novel. Otherwise known as an agent’s favorite phrase ever.
UPDATE: The New York Daily News gets in on the celebwriter thing, too.