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Seeking Credibility, Oprah Turns to Wiesel Memoir
17-Jan-2006
Written by: David Pepose
After the embarrassment surrounding certain fictional aspects of James Frey’s alleged memoir, “A Million Little Pieces,” Oprah Winfrey has decided to rent the Oprah Book Club a little bit of rented respectability in naming Elie Wiesel’s “Night” as her next book.
After the embarrassment surrounding certain fictional aspects of James Frey’s alleged memoir, “A Million Little Pieces,” Oprah Winfrey has decided to rent the Oprah Book Club a little bit of rented respectability in naming Elie Wiesel’s “Night” as her next book. Wiesel is a Nobel Prize winner who has spent his career fighting to keep the Holocaust from fading into obscurity. Wiesel will appear on Winfrey’s show in February. Winfrey announced that Night “should be required reading for all humanity.” Despite some critics calling the book a novel, Wiesel has angrily defended it, saying, “my experiences in the book - A to Z - must be true… All the people I describe were with me there. I object angrily if someone mentions it as a novel.” Winfrey has since defended her last pick, Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces,” stating “the underlying message of redemption in James Frey’s memoir still resonates with me.”
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