What Did Frey’s Publisher Know And When Did She Know It?

“Nan Talese was in no position to call Frey’s book ‘brutally honest’ in 2004 because that was after her conversation with the Star Tribune [which published a piece questioning the book’s accuracy]. But she didn’t tell Oprah that. Nor did she say she had no idea in 2004 that there were problems with the book, which would be an outright lie. Instead, Talese said, ‘[T]his whole experience is very sad’ and observed that you can’t ‘get inside another person’s mind.’ This last is an especially preposterous non sequitur because by 2004 you didn’t need to ‘get inside’ Frey’s mind to find out that his memoir wasn’t factual.”