Interesting. Glad Nan Talese put it back on Frey's shoulders.
In it, a quote by Tom Wolfe:
“Let me tell you something—George Orwell, probably back in the 1950’s, wrote that autobiography is the most outrageous form of fiction. It always has been, and probably always will be, and usually there’s no blogger to catch them,” said Mr. Wolfe. “It has nothing to do with the New Journalism.
“I mean, if it’s gonna be called ‘nonfiction,’ I don’t think there should be any doubt about it,” he added.
Here's the piece in The Observer.
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It will be interesting to see what happens--whether memoirs will be more sought after or less so. And whether all memoirs will have to display prominent disclaimers.
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