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...since Joe McGinniss began dreaming up things that Senator Edward M. Kennedy might have thought, in The Last Brother (1993), has there been such an elastic and accommodating definition of nonfiction as Carcaterra's. Truth matters, but it has nothing to do with petty details. An author who wanted to write about the Yalta Conference, say, but not about Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would remain equally true to the topic by naming the principals Larry, Curly and Moe and placing them in a Tijuana saloon...
...since Joe McGinniss began dreaming up things that Senator Edward M. Kennedy might have thought, in "The Last Brother" (1993), has there been such an elastic and accommodating definition of nonfiction as shown in Lorenzo Carcaterra's new book (Ballantine; 404 pages; $23). The story purports to be a true account of how a young Lorenzo, along with three childhood friends from New York's Hell's Kitchen, were sent to an upstate New York correctional facility, where they were repeatedly raped, beaten and tortured by four sadistic guards. Or were they? Lorenzo swears his account is true, but admits...
...about two weeks after the murders, a total of 12 books related to the case have landed in stores to date. Some half-dozen more-including a memoir by Johnnie Cochran's ex-wife, Barbara Cochran Berry (Basic Books), and works by regular trial watchers Dominick Dunne and Joe McGinniss (both published by Crown) and Jeffrey Toobin (Random House)-are still to come. How much more will the market bear? Says Thomas J. McCormack, chairman and ceo of St. Martin's Press, which produced the "quickie" volume Fallen Hero (250,000 copies sold): "the number of confirmed [trial] addicts...
Oliver Stone was attacked for stretching the facts about the Kennedy assassination in JFK. Author Joe McGinniss is getting slammed for inventing thoughts and dialogue for his new biography of Ted Kennedy. If no similar outcry greets Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair, it is because tawdry "fact- based" TV movies have become too common to get riled over. This one, moreover, inoculates itself with a disclaimer at the outset: "A fictionalized account inspired by the public lives of Marilyn Monroe and Robert F. Kennedy." None of which can entirely excuse this USA Network movie from responsibility for breaking new ground...
...McGinniss's The Last Brother received a huge amount of attention, but still did not sell nearly as well last week in most stores as did Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes...