Just a quick followup to last week’s item on Regan ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves: in this week’s New Yorker, Fenjves talks to Jeffrey Toobin, who covered the Simpson murder trial (in which Fenjves was a prosecution witness) for the magazine over a decade ago. “I think you’d be hard pressed to find a reporter in this country who, given the opportunity to sit down and take a confession from O. J. Simpson, no matter how oblique, would have refused to do so,” Fenjves tells Toobin—sounds like Judith Regan never filled him in on how she’d tried and failed to get Barbara Walters to host the TV special.
Speaking of which, that interview hasn’t turned up on the Internet yet, but copies of If I Did It have appeared on eBay. And, according to a Variety story Stephen Zeitchik filed yesterday, OJ might be able to place the book elsewhere, at least in the contractual sense. Zeitchik even raises the possibility of self-publishing, which leads us to ask…