Talese Contradicts Frey’s Account of Sale Nan Talese talks to the Observer about the publication of James Frey’s A MILLION LITTLE PIECES and her essential truth is different than the author’s. She tells the Observer she “almost collapsed” after hearing Frey tell Larry King, “When Nan Talese purchased the book, I’m not sure if they knew what they were going to publish it as. We talked about what to publish it as. And they thought the best thing to do was publish it as a memoir.” Her statement: “When the manuscript of A Million Little Pieces was received by us […]