Fiction or non-fiction? It should be fairly straightforward for the author to choose which category their manuscript fits. It's got to be one or the other. What you've penned is either real or imaginary.
The Library of Congress will then catalogue the book and provide guidance to local librarians everywhere. Can't very well shelve a book without its proper code, without the numbers and letters that Mr. Dewey was clever enough to invent.
Author Rita Cosby isn't doing the librarians any favors with her tell-all book, Blonde Ambition. Ms. Cosby claims that her creation is non-fiction, a biography of Anna Nicole Smith. The late Ms. Smith's constant companion claims that the book is pure fiction. It's up to a judge in New York to decide.
Howard Stern believes that Ms. Cosby's book libeled him in seventeen instances, including an assertion that Ms. Smith had often viewed a videotape of Mr. Stern engaged in homosexual acts with the father of Ms. Smith's baby. He's suing to the tune of $60 million to clear his good name.
As for Hachette Book Group, the publisher of this biography/novel, their legal counsel is dumping it all in Rita Cosby's lap, since it's her book and her scholarship that created it. If there's fiction between the pages, it's her fault entirely. And isn't there some other corroboration somewhere about the gay sex?
Ms. Cosby's attorneys believe that Mr. Stern has no decent reputation to uphold, not since he was implicated in Ms. Smith's death, so how could the author possibly downgrade that which is at the bottom already? She stands by her research; the book is a biography.
One side claims it's a work of non-fiction, while the other insists the book's no better than a cheap novel.
Judge Denny Chin will be the one to catalogue the book, as he decides if Mr. Stern has a valid case.
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