Herman Rosenblat's Holocaust cred might be shot after it was revealed that his memoir, Angel at the Fence, contained a bunch of inaccuracies, but that doesn't mean it will go to waste! Look at how many copies of A Million Little Pieces are out there!
After Angel got dropped by Berkley Books, a small-ish publisher is "in talks" with Rosenblat to release his story as a work of fiction. Jeez, people really go bonkers over what part of Barnes and Noble they find a book in, huh?
Now that the Holocaust memoir Angel at the Fence was revealed to be a fraud and Berkley has backed out of their publishing deal with the second guy who lied to Oprah, is there ever a chance that you'll be able to read the love story of a lifetime that never happened? Sure there is, and Gawker has the excerpts over yonder.
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Fake memoirist Herman Rosenblat, who joins the list of esteemed fake memoirists to have duped Oprah, didn't just lose his Angel at the Fence book contract after fudging some Holocaust facts. He's also lost his kiddie book! CONTINUED »
Angel at the Fence author Herman Rosenblat is going down. Only a few weeks after Oprah touted his memoir — as she is wont to do — as the greatest love story of the century, detailing his time spent in a concentration camp while his future wife threw him apples over the fence, it's been revealed by Holocaust scholars and muckraking The New Republic type that no way, no how, did the "apple through the fence" story that the book is built on ever happen. His books have already been recalled, Oprah is fuming away somewhere, and Rosenblat is now lumped in with all those other fake memoir writers like James Frey and JT Leroy.
In the speech which Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was to have delivered at a Monday rally protesting the UN appearance of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, she was to have said that the Iranian president "dreams of being an agent in a 'Final Solution' - the elimination of the Jewish people."Her appearance in the rally in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza was cancelled in a flap between protest organizers and Hillary Clinton, who had also been scheduled to speak. Clinton aides were quoted as saying that they had been "blindsided" by the decision to invite Palin, which they called a partisan move. In the ensuing controversy, Clinton withdrew her participation, and Palin's invitation was rescinded.
Things are different in Europe. In Spain, maintaining a healthy body mass index is more important than free speech, and in Germany, belittling the Holocaust isn’t controversial so much as it is illegal.
The November issue of German Vanity Fair ran an interview with Horst Mahler, a neo-Nazi whose attitude toward the Jews is uncomfortably retro. Mahler denied the Holocaust in the piece, which is illegal in Germany. Now Vanity Fair is being sued by Arno Lustiger, a Jewish historian and Holocaust survivor.
Vanity Fair has offered no response beyond, “Eak, this is awkward.”
