Word: fictionalizing
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...James Frey's memoir A Million Little Pieces, many are currently in dispute, but that last one is not. To date A Million Little Pieces has sold 4 million copies, helped not a little by the fact that Oprah chose it as her book club's first-ever non-fiction title. The only book that sold better than Frey's last year was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince...
...think so, because it's fiction. I think what you would recognize are types, through these archetypal washington characters - the insecure reporter; the blowhards; the socialites; the scrappy newcomer. Several different people could go into each single character in the book...
...blogs on Technorati suggest some trends. First, technologists rule. The most popular of the lot is “Boing Boing,” a self-proclaimed “directory of wonderful things” which writes a bit about politics and a lot about technology and science fiction. Also in the top 10 are two gadgetry blogs, “Engadget” and “Gizmodo,” each dedicated informants of the latest crazes in Japanese cell phone innovations. The remainder of the top 10 is a bit better rounded. InstaPundit contains the musings...
...convenient fiction that American history starts with Columbus. In 1491, Mann tells the story of a lost world of vast, glittering, wealthy cities, sophisticated cultures and an agricultural economy built without the aid of horses or, largely, the wheel--all destroyed by the epidemics initiated by contact with Europe. The Indians whom the Pilgrims encountered were only the last survivors, refugees from a civilization that had already collapsed...
...Books: Five fiction and five non-fiction greats...