'Million Little' Problems Follow Writer
Carol Memmott
USA Today
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Discredited memoirist James Frey got a tongue-lashing from Oprah Winfrey last week, but his problems are far from over.A Million Little Pieces publisher Doubleday, still smarting from its initial defense of Frey's best-selling book, is running an advertisement in today's USA TODAY apologizing to readers. And Riverhead, the publisher of Pieces sequel My Friend Leonard, is trying to distance itself from Frey.
Riverhead is reconsidering a contract with Frey for future books and is referring inquiries about the authenticity of events in My Friend Leonard to the author.In response to a USA TODAY inquiry, Riverhead spokeswoman Marilyn Ducksworth said in an e-mail:
"Those questions are best answered by James Frey." And then Frey's personal publicist Lisa Kussell said, "We have no comments at all."Frey told Winfrey on Thursday that the opening chapters of Leonard, in which he recounts 87 days in prison, were not true.
Jan 30, 2006
Carol Memmott
USA Today
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Discredited memoirist James Frey got a tongue-lashing from Oprah Winfrey last week, but his problems are far from over.A Million Little Pieces publisher Doubleday, still smarting from its initial defense of Frey's best-selling book, is running an advertisement in today's USA TODAY apologizing to readers. And Riverhead, the publisher of Pieces sequel My Friend Leonard, is trying to distance itself from Frey.
Riverhead is reconsidering a contract with Frey for future books and is referring inquiries about the authenticity of events in My Friend Leonard to the author.In response to a USA TODAY inquiry, Riverhead spokeswoman Marilyn Ducksworth said in an e-mail:
"Those questions are best answered by James Frey." And then Frey's personal publicist Lisa Kussell said, "We have no comments at all."Frey told Winfrey on Thursday that the opening chapters of Leonard, in which he recounts 87 days in prison, were not true.
Jan 30, 2006
