Winfrey club prompts new genre: Friction
Published January 18, 2006
Another Oprah Winfrey book club pick has raised the issue of fact versus fiction.
Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble said Tuesday they were making changes to certify Elie Wiesel's "Night" as non-fiction. Barnes & Noble is removing the book from its fiction list, and Amazon is changing the categorization of "Night" and revising a description to make clear it does not consider the book a novel.
Wiesel did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
On Monday, Winfrey announced that Wiesel's account of his family's placement in Auschwitz was her latest choice. "Night" quickly topped Amazon's best-seller list, displacing Winfrey's previous selection, James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces."
Frey has acknowledged he embellished parts of his book. No such allegations are being made about "Night," but there has long been confusion over how to label it.
Um. Confusion? Over categorizing Night? It's a literary memoir, numb nuts.
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