James Frey blah blah admits some aspects of book fabricated, but the interesting part of the novel is how if affects marriages. Gay Talese, author and former NY Times reporter, believes "it was unacceptable for an author or a publisher to present as nonfiction a work that . . . otherwise blurred the lines between truth and fiction." His wife, Nan Talese, publisher of James Frey's book, believes that memoirs are "not absolute fact. It's how one remembers what happened. . . This is a debate that we've been having for 40 years."
I sense some tension in the household. Or, at least, in the categorizing the books in the library. For instance, where would Proust fit into the couple's divide? (As usual, it all comes back to Proust).
