Oprah's Book Club is back. Like a phoenix from the ashes of the James Frey debacle, Oprah has returned, and this time she's got a veritable saint by her side in the form of acclaimed actor and activist Sidney Poitier. When your book club's burned by a guy who made a bunch of crap up, what better way to go than with the autobiography of a person who has lived most of his adult life in the public eye. It also doesn't hurt that the guy's golden. Short of some cantankerous ghostwriter coming forward, Poitier and his autobiographical tome The Measure of a Man are beyond criticism. He also lacks any particular literary pretenses so he's not going to pull a Jonathan Franzen, who requested that his book The Corrections be struck from the Winfrey record.book club-related stories
Oprah chooses Poitier memoir for book club
Oprah's Book Club is back. Like a phoenix from the ashes of the James Frey debacle, Oprah has returned, and this time she's got a veritable saint by her side in the form of acclaimed actor and activist Sidney Poitier. When your book club's burned by a guy who made a bunch of crap up, what better way to go than with the autobiography of a person who has lived most of his adult life in the public eye. It also doesn't hurt that the guy's golden. Short of some cantankerous ghostwriter coming forward, Poitier and his autobiographical tome The Measure of a Man are beyond criticism. He also lacks any particular literary pretenses so he's not going to pull a Jonathan Franzen, who requested that his book The Corrections be struck from the Winfrey record.Continue reading Oprah chooses Poitier memoir for book club
Random House (doesn't) offer refund on Frey's book
If you purchased a copy of James Frey's book A Million Little
Pieces and were devastated to find out he made a lot of it up, torn asunder by the
audacity of this so-called author, bolting upright in the middle of the night in a cold sweat and punching the walls
screaming, "Why, Jimmy, why?" over and over again while angrily gnawing at your own feet because the pain is
the only way you know how to cope with what he's done... then you've overreacted just a tad. Still, there was a
small glimmer of hope. Reuters and others reported that Random House was offering refunds to anyone who purchased the
book through them, but that rumor was put to rest with this statement on Random House's Web site. If you
want to return your book, you'll have to take it back to the bookstore like everyone else.
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