Comments on: Another Famous Golfer http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/15/another-famous-golfer/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:58:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » Blog Archive » Who Did It? Pablo Fenjves http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/15/another-famous-golfer/#comment-120547 Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » Blog Archive » Who Did It? Pablo Fenjves Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:46:05 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/15/another-famous-golfer/#comment-120547 [...] In “If They Did It“–boy, we’re really wearing that out, aren’t we?–Rebecca Dana offers more postmortem on O. J. Simpson’s now canceled book and interview. Among the many details (some of them interesting, some of them arguable, such as Dana’s assertion that Barbara Walters is a “journalist”): Ms. Regan arranged a phone call between Ms. Walters and the book’s ghostwriter, Pablo Fenjves, a former co-worker of Ms. Regan’s at The National Enquirer who was also a witness for the prosecution in Mr. Simpson’s criminal trial—it was he who recalled the “plaintive wail” of what might have been Nicole Brown Simpson’s Akita on the day of her murder. [...] […] In “If They Did It“–boy, we’re really wearing that out, aren’t we?–Rebecca Dana offers more postmortem on O. J. Simpson’s now canceled book and interview. Among the many details (some of them interesting, some of them arguable, such as Dana’s assertion that Barbara Walters is a “journalist”): Ms. Regan arranged a phone call between Ms. Walters and the book’s ghostwriter, Pablo Fenjves, a former co-worker of Ms. Regan’s at The National Enquirer who was also a witness for the prosecution in Mr. Simpson’s criminal trial—it was he who recalled the “plaintive wail” of what might have been Nicole Brown Simpson’s Akita on the day of her murder. […]

]]> By: Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Richard Powers Wins the National Book Award http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/15/another-famous-golfer/#comment-1134 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Richard Powers Wins the National Book Award Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:25:25 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/15/another-famous-golfer/#comment-1134 [...] As reported last night by our New York correspondent, John Green, Richard Powers has won the National Book Award for fiction. Well deserved, in this humble blogger’s opinion. The full list: [...] […] As reported last night by our New York correspondent, John Green, Richard Powers has won the National Book Award for fiction. Well deserved, in this humble blogger’s opinion. The full list: […]

]]> By: John Green http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/15/another-famous-golfer/#comment-1114 John Green Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:18:21 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/15/another-famous-golfer/#comment-1114 Two things: 1. Did you see the cover? The "If" is white, and then the "I DID IT" is in blood-red lettering. So that's nice. 2. Richard Powers won the National Book Award! Hooray, America! Yay! Now, onto Stockholm! -John Two things:

1. Did you see the cover? The “If” is white, and then the “I DID IT” is in blood-red lettering. So that’s nice.

2. Richard Powers won the National Book Award! Hooray, America! Yay! Now, onto Stockholm!

-John

]]> By: Bill http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/15/another-famous-golfer/#comment-1088 Bill Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:44:03 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/15/another-famous-golfer/#comment-1088 O. J. is taking a page out of Ted Bundy's book here. While on death row, Bundy told two writers how he would have done it, though he also contended that he didn't. Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth's "The Only Living Witness" (1989)recounts the whole Bundy saga, with plenty of space given to Ted's first-person commentary. "Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer" reprints just the transcripts of the interviews. I doubt if O. J. is much of a reader, but I bet Judith Regan did her research. O. J. is taking a page out of Ted Bundy’s book here. While on death row, Bundy told two writers how he would have done it, though he also contended that he didn’t. Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth’s “The Only Living Witness” (1989)recounts the whole Bundy saga, with plenty of space given to Ted’s first-person commentary. “Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer” reprints just the transcripts of the interviews. I doubt if O. J. is much of a reader, but I bet Judith Regan did her research.

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