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James Frey publisher accuses Oprah of having 'fiercely bad manners'
By M&C News Jul 30, 2007, 14:39 GMT
According to an Associated Press article, Nan A. Talese, the publisher of James Frey’s 2005 bestseller A Million Little Pieces, said at a writers conference in Dallas that Winfrey had “fiercely bad manners".
"I'm afraid I'm unapologetic of the whole thing. And the only person who should be apologetic is Oprah Winfrey," Talese said in The Dallas Morning News.
James Frey got into hot water when it was discovered that his memoir A Million Little Pieces was highly fabricated, and more fiction than memoir. Winfrey then had the writer on her show and antagonized him for merely creating grandeur to his otherwise dull, drug-induced life.
But the real reason Frey should have taken blame is for his poor writing. The article states that a judge approved an order to have Frey pay back $2.35 million in royalties to anyone having bought his book before Winfrey’s show.
Perhaps this lesson should teach Winfrey to pick better-written books for her selections and also for the general public to not buy into what the media says.
An anti-Oprah essay about it can be read here.
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