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Oprah Winfrey and Nan Talese are giants in their respective fields. Talese is a publishing legend whose imprint at Doubleday includes such prestigious authors as Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, Ian McEwan and Antonia Fraser. Oprah Winfrey is, of course, Oprah. The last time the two women met was on Winfrey's show in January 2006, when one of Talese's authors, James Frey, famously apologized for the lack of veracity in his book A Million Little Pieces as Oprah berated him and withdrew her Book Club's lucrative endorsement of the book. All the while, Talese sat next...
...because memoirs today "strain credulity." The novelist added, "This is an ethical issue which can be debated passionately and with convincing arguments on both sides. In the end, Oprah Winfrey had to defend her own ethical standards of truth on her television program, which was courageous of her; and Nan Talese had to defend her standards as a longtime revered editor, which was courageous...
...thing Nan did have...was a good feeling for what it’s like to live in a university and manage university life,” Putnam says. “So the reason that she came to play such an important role in that period is that she was the one person in the Corporation who was able to translate what was actually happening on campus to the Corporation...
...people I don’t know follow me into the dorm, so this incident doesn’t change my behavior,” Ponahue said. HUDS Director for Marketing and Communications Crista Martin could not be reached for comment last night. —Staff writer Nan Ni can be reached at nni@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Nan Ni can be reached at nni@fas.harvard.edu...