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How News Gets Out of Hand

January 7, 2009
By Michael Cader

A number of outlets have misconstrued reports of small press York House negotiating for the rights to issue Herman Rosenblat’s story as a work of fiction–including a brief in today’s NYT, even though the online version of the story links directly to a York House press release.

To be clear, the press is negotiating for rights to “a work of fiction…based on the screenplay, tentatively called, Flower at The Fence, about Herman Rosenblat’s life and love story.” Movie producer Harris Solomon (and his attorney), who controls film rights to the book, is the one negotiating the license.

There is no plan or effort to issue Rosenblat’s cancelled memoir itself as a work of fiction. Agent Andrea Hurst underscores that “neither Herman or I are involved in any way, and find this appalling.”

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