Crime and Punishment: Adam Penenberg on Stephen Glass, Journalism's Most Notorious Fabulist. For a profession that’s all about telling the truth, some journalists know how to spin pretty tall tales. Most recently, two of the claims made by Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly have been called into question: that he was reporting from a combat zone. Former colleagues describe him as desperate for approval; in his novel, The Fabulist, the "Stephen Glass" character says his lies are driven by his need to be seen as infallible, as interesting. · After 16 years, the New Republic’s fabulist Stephen Glass is back in the news. Read Forbes' original stories that exposed the thenyear-old's lies.
A photo of Stephen Glass, former journalist who fabricated more than 40 articles. (Photo by David Bartolomi/Courtesy of Simon Schuster). And what could he gain from dredging it up now? Finally, why has it taken Harper's 18 years to retract an article penned by a serial fabulist? Over the years, Steve Glass got mixed up in our minds with the fictionalized Stephen Glass from his own roman à clef, The Fabulist, or Steve Glass as played by Steve Glass now lives in Venice Beach with his longtime girlfriend, Julie Hilden, a dog, two cats, and a rotating cast of foster pets. I have just finished reading The Fabulist which is Stephen Glass' fictional account of what happened and the aftermath that followed. Okay, but isn't Stephen Glass someone's child as well? Think about what he has gone through and if you can't honestly forgive him, that's your cross to bear.
The fabulist: a novel. by. Glass, Stephen. Publication date. Topics. Journalists, Journalistic ethics, Reporters and reporting, Truthfulness and falsehood, Literary ethics, Literary forgeries and mystifications. Publisher. New York: Simon Schuster. Simon and Schuster. Hardcover. Good. White boards with gilt titling on a red spine and general wear. Dust jacket is clean and intact with light edge wear. Text block is clean and sound with light edge wear. pages. Shipping charges may be adjusted. _. The Fabulist (Simon Schuster, $24) is a novelized apologia from Glass, the young writer who in was found to have fictionalized large chunks of his journalism for The New Republic and other.
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