She did not unleash publishing's version of the death penalty: revoking her endorsement, a devastating and unprecedented action. Winfrey's words also were harsher than her actions.
They need to apply them and be honest and rigid about it." "There's such a thing as fact and such a thing as fiction. "The rules have always been understood," Cohen says. But no changes in the text are planned and the book will remain classified as a memoir. In a statement issued later Thursday, Doubleday, which initially had called the allegations not worth looking into, said it had "sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished."ĭoubleday said an author's note and a publisher's note would be sent to booksellers to insert into current editions and that any future printings would be delayed until the notes were included in the actual book. She acknowledged that the book had not been fact-checked, something many publishers say they have little time to do. Talese, an industry veteran whose many authors have included Ian McEwan, George Plimpton and Thomas Cahill, told Winfrey that editors who saw the book raised no questions and that "A Million Little Pieces" received a legal vetting. She lectured Talese on her responsibilities: "I'm trusting you, the publisher, to categorize this book whether as fiction or autobiographical or memoir." Winfrey noted that her staff had been alerted to possible discrepancies in Frey's book, only to be assured by the publisher.
Bravado Tough Guy," she mockingly called the author whose book she had enshrined last fall and whose reputation she had recently saved. No longer, as she told King, was she saying that emotional truth mattered more than the facts. Winfrey, whose apparent indifference to the memoir's accuracy led to intense criticism, including angry e-mails on her Web site, subjected Frey to a virtual page-by-page interrogation. Talese of Doubleday, Frey was questioned about various parts of his book, from the three-month jail sentence he now says he never served to undergoing dental surgery without Novocain, a story he no longer clearly recalls. On a segment that also featured the book's publisher, Nan A. "I left the impression that the truth does not matter," Winfrey said Thursday of last week's call, saying that "e-mail after e-mail" from supporters of the book had cast a "cloud" over her judgment.
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