How David Sedaris' Mostly True-ish Book Wound Up in the Fiction Section

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Self-professed "huge exaggerator" David Sedaris believes that if his stories are 97 percent true, they're "true enough." That wasn't good enough for Barnes & Noble, which stocked his new book When You Are Engulfed in Flames in their fiction section. Onlookers might've seen it as B&N lumping Sedaris in there with the James Freys of the world. Except that wasn't their intent! A mixup with Nielsen Bookscan, which put Flames in the wrong category, is being blamed. All wrongs have been righted, and the purchasing public can now find Sedaris' book in the 97-percent non-fiction section. [NYO]D

Jun 17, 2008 · posted by david · Link · Respond
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