James Frey

Daum: Judging a book, and its author

2013-01-31 00:00:00

It's not easy being a book consumer these days. For starters, books seem so long — at least compared to the blog posts and online news items that have recalibrated the pace of the average American attention span. And that's not the half of it....

What time is Lance Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey?

2013-01-17 11:00:00

Oprah Winfrey's hotly anticipated, two-part interview with Lance Armstrong will air Thursday and Friday nights at 9 p.m. EST/PST on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. For those without a cable subscription, "Oprah and Lance Armstrong: The Worldwide...

'Three Cups of Tea' co-author David Oliver Relin dead of suicide

2012-12-03 12:56:00

David Oliver Relin, Gregory Mortenson's co-author on the bestseller "Three Cups of Tea," has died. The 49-year-old committed suicide Nov. 15 in Oregon, the Multnomah County medical examiner announced late Sunday, saying blunt force trauma to the head...

Book review: 'Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake' details good life

2012-07-09 00:00:00

It says "memoir" on the jacket of this book, and this time, it's true. Anna Quindlen has been the diarist of baby boomers, and women boomers especially, since she began writing at the age of 18 for the New York Times, where her columns won a Pulitzer...

Daum: When truth is trumped by theatrics

2012-03-22 00:00:00

Even if you don't have a cupboard full of pledge-drive coffee mugs, you've probably heard about the latest dust-up in public radio. A stage performer named Mike Daisey chronicled a trip he made in 2010 to China to check out conditions at a factory run...

The Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to David Guterson's "Ed King"

2011-12-06 00:00:00

David Guterson has won 2011's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The tongue-in-cheek prize was presented at a ceremony in London on Tuesday. As in years past, the award-winning author was not in attendance. Guterson was awarded the prize for writing a marathon...

The Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to David Guterson

2011-12-06 16:34:27

Book review: 'Dogfish Memory' by Joseph A. Dane

2011-07-08 00:00:00

Joseph Dane probably didn't know that he was injecting valuable lifeblood into the memoir form when he wrote "Dogfish Memory." He was just trying to come to some kind of peace with the fog of remembrance; to stake a defiant pose against death and...

Booktrack: A soundtrack for books

2011-08-25 16:34:42

Discoveries

2011-03-20 00:00:00

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Harper: 288 pp., $24.99 Kamela Sediqi was not yet 20 when the Taliban took over in Kabul, Afghanistan, in...

Weekend Movies: 'Unknown,' 'I Am Number Four, 'Big Mommas'

2011-02-18 16:39:06

James Frey's hipster Jesus

2011-03-15 16:33:52

After James Frey admitted to fabrications in his bestselling memoir "A Million Little Pieces," Oprah Winfrey apologized to viewers for her defense of the embattled author and then grilled him and the publisher on national television.

2013-01-17 00:00:00

"He said that if I wanted to see God, see God as he did, and in God's true form, he could show me. He told me to close my eyes, so I did."

2011-12-14 14:36:18

After 25 years of celebrity interviews, book club picks and lavish audience giveaways, talk-show host Oprah Winfrey broadcast her last episode in May 2011. Winfrey's guests included Liberace, shortly before he died, and Tom Cruise in a memorable couch-jumping episode. But her 1993 interview with

2011-12-01 11:56:46