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...stories told in and around 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...
...haters hate, let the doubters doubt, I stand by my book, and my life, and I won't dignify this bulls___ with any sort of further response." On Wednesday (having apparently reconsidered that last bit somewhat) he appeared on Larry King with a more nuanced position: "A memoir is a subjective retelling of events," he said. "It's an individual's perception of what happened in their own life; this is my recollection of my life." Oprah, in her inimitable semi-divine fashion, called in to the show to lend her carefully phrased support: "The underlying message of redemption...
DIED. HEINRICH HARRER, 93, Austrian adventurer and ex-Nazi whose 1953 memoir, Seven Years in Tibet, was the basis for the 1997 film, in which he was played by Brad Pitt; in Vienna. A onetime SS member who later renounced Nazism, Harrer was a skilled alpinist. In 1938 he took part in the first ascent of the Eiger north face in Switzerland. The next year, he embarked on a Himalayan expedition that led to his stay in Tibet, during which he became a teacher, adviser and friend to the Dalai Lama...
...Another masterpiece released in teasing installments, the first half of David B.'s phantasmagorical memoir about growing up with an epileptic brother was brilliant enough to merit the top spot in TIME's top comix list of 2002. Finally partnered with the second half as a complete graphic novel, readers can at last enjoy the full scope of Epileptic's remarkable meditation on the nature of illness, the impact of history on the present, and the need to create fantasies and art. David B. seems to have total recall of what it was like growing up with a stigmatized brother...
...would spend the rest of his life in an Army prison; he left to ensure his daughters' freedom. He did the right thing. Here in Japan, Jenkins is praised, since he was able to get his Japanese wife, an abductee, back to her home country. Copies of his memoir in Japanese can be found at any bookstore. His wife, Hitomi Soga, is a national hero, having survived 20 years of abduction mainly under his protection. Jenkins is a hero not because he has exonerated himself but because he did not let his past cowardice keep him from doing the brave...