Seems like Oprah is a liar, too

Nan Talese tells the NY Observer that Harpo staffers lied to her about the content of the "Revenge Against James Frey" show last week.

“I was asked to go onto a program that was going to have James on it, and then I was going to be joined by Frank Rich and Richard Cohen to talk about ‘Truth in America.’ That was the program,” Ms. Talese said by phone this past weekend. As she was walking onto the set of the special live broadcast, however, she was informed that the theme of the show had been changed to something called “The James Frey Controversy.” Ms. Talese was surprised.

She also said that Frey was completely shattered on the plane back to New York, suggesting that Harpo also lied to him about why he was there. In fact, Talese didn't want to go on the show, but ultimately went because Frey insisted. And I doubt he would have insisted had he known the true intent of the show.

Also, Random House has released the forward that will be in new editions of "A Million Little Pieces," and Frey has put his site back up, after being forced to take it down by his hosting company. (Something about eating up too much bandwidth ...) He's reprinted the letter there, as well.