Jackie Danicki

This morning, over the breakfast table:

ME: Another Oprah book scandal?
HILLARY [visibly pissed off]: Yeah, get this. It’s the ultimate meet-cute story. When he was supposedly in Buchenwald -
ME: BUCHENWALD?!
HILLARY: Wait, it gets better.

She blogs it here, and Nancy here. I have nothing else to add to their nail-hammering posts, except this: I was going through the archives of the Guardian’s “This much I know” feature two nights ago, and came across James Frey’s answers. I suspect this quotation might rankle a bit with the likes of Nancy and Hillary, two of my favorite memoir writers.

If I’m the guy who destroyed the memoir genre, I’m not unhappy about that.

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