Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
Stephen Glass, the writer who was fired five years ago for fabricating facts in his stories, has declined to speak publicly about the incident - until now. This Sunday, "60 Minutes" will feature an interview with Glass, who is promoting a novel about his frauds, titled The Fabulist. "Glass uses only one real name - his own - in a fictionalized treatment of how he bamboozled the world as a 25-year-old New Republic writer who always seemed to have the most colorful scenes and the most perfect quotes," writes Howard Kurtz. "Perhaps fittingly, the other characters all have fake names." Leon Wieseltier, the New Republic's literary editor, commented that "even in his reckoning of his crimes, he seems incapable of nonfiction. It's unbelievable. This may be the first novel ever written for the sole purpose of avoiding fact-checking."
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