Most of the Truth or All Your Money Back
Jan. 11th, 2006 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltmurnauI always wondered what the term "creative non-fiction" really meant - seems it can have financial repercussions beyond making Wads of Cash if Oprah decides she likes it:
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"In a move believed to be unprecedented, publisher Random House is offering a refund to consumers who bought the non-fiction book A Million Little Pieces.
James Frey's memoir of drug and alcohol addiction and redemption has been challenged as unverifiable and "wildly exaggerated."
On Sunday, the Smoking Gun website (http://www.thsmokinggun.com) published the results of a six-week investigation into the book and concluded Frey has "fictionalized his past to propel and sweeten the book's already melodramatic narrative."
Media throughout North America picked up on the controversy, in part because the book had been endorsed by Oprah Winfrey on her popular talk show.
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More at http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/01/11/frey-refund.html
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"In a move believed to be unprecedented, publisher Random House is offering a refund to consumers who bought the non-fiction book A Million Little Pieces.
James Frey's memoir of drug and alcohol addiction and redemption has been challenged as unverifiable and "wildly exaggerated."
On Sunday, the Smoking Gun website (http://www.thsmokinggun.com) published the results of a six-week investigation into the book and concluded Frey has "fictionalized his past to propel and sweeten the book's already melodramatic narrative."
Media throughout North America picked up on the controversy, in part because the book had been endorsed by Oprah Winfrey on her popular talk show.
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More at http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/01/11/frey-refund.html
