Publisher Nan Talese's Remarks on Oprah Winfrey

From C-SPAN's BookTV: Publisher Nan Talese's Remarks on Oprah Winfrey.

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[crispflava]

How could Nan Talese be too dumb to realize she would be asked questions about the book when she went on the show? It's the job of the media to ask tough questions & it's the job of the publisher to fact check a book. And if James Frey is too much of a sissy to handle to a few tough questions on a ladies chat show, how does he expect us to believe he's the tough guy he describes in his books?

[raindroptree]

I can't stand Oprah but I did gain a lot of respect her when she had the guts and smarts to confront both Frey and Nan Talese on live TV and hold them accountable. Oprah is wasting her talents as a talk show host, she'd make a great journalist. Talese is in way over her head as an editor; the woman's too incompetent to fact check, too dumb to differentiate fact and fiction, & is still in denial years later.

[BoothJudas]

@zaxaphoned publishers are part of the media you tool

[BoothJudas]

@blognewb a memoir means that the narrator is speaking from a first person limited view. Meaning that the narrator/writer can only tell you what they were thinking and what happened to them. There is no other side to the story...that sort of lends itself to fiction. I think the real problem here is readers not being able to take what they read with a grain of salt.

[gulshabbo]

Winfrey did not turn on Frey until people began to criticize her.

[linzki]

@JDubs878 Bitch showed her claws, her true self. She lives in a bubble and everybody around her live to feed her(cash cows) ego 24/7 so she have no touch with reality and even thinks she is capable to be a "teacher", LOL.

[blognewb]

@Moscato51 Yes it does. A memoir is non-fiction, not semi-non-fiction. No buts, no if's.

[MrFrankygoestoboston]

This woman is full of shit and is despicable liar just like the so called author she published. Oprah was right in taking this phony rip off to task. People bought the book thinking it was non fiction when it was pure fiction.

[Moscato51]

I don't understand why there has been so much made of this Frey and his book. Is it REALLY that big of a deal that he embellished on a few things? So what! It didn't affect the main story of the book and the message he was trying to convey.

[JDubs878]

I think Oprah was angry that she was completely hoodwinked by James and his book that when she found out that not everything in it was true, she was infuriated and wanted blood

Oprah probably thought how could an intelligent, successful woman as her be so completely fooled and put a man and his book on national television and sing his praises only to be told it wasn't all true. It probably embarassed the hell out of her and she wanted James back on her show to exact revenge and rip him a new one

[sheatessaxo]

This speaker is the author, Joyce Carol Oates, NOT Nan Talese. The video a total voice over.