So I Lied
About never posting about James Frey again.But I think the tides have turned. Today, after being vilified by the world's self-appointed book czarina, James Frey's agent dumped him.
It's all too much.
Why, three weeks later, do people still care? I don't remember now, but I don't think the media cared quite so much, or so long, when Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose were found guilty of plagiarism. Okay, so Jason Blair and Stephen Glass might be a different story, but this has gone on long enough. He didn't copy someone else's work, he didn't fabricate stories about world events - he embellished the facts of his life to sell his story.
Which, to be honest, is something that I do on a more or less daily basis.
posted by venus de kilo @ 10:28 AM
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As Jon Stewart points out, it's not like none of our political leaders have ever lied to us either
In the end, a good book is still a good book.
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