Turns out that James Frey, the author who Oprah made and then destroyed, wasn’t the only Oprah book club author that fabricated a non-fiction book. (Frey’s book, A Zillion Little Pieces, was discovered to be fabricated and Oprah, in her own indignant, “I’ve been wronged and my peeps have been wronged” manner tore Frey a new one on national TV.)

Well, it happened again. Another Oprah book club selection, Herman Rosenblat’s holocaust memoir Angel at the Fence: the True Story of a Love That Survived which Oprah called, “the single greatest love story, in 22 years of doing this show,” was found to be FICTION, not a true story.

So what, I say, the guy is old, give him a break.  Maybe he didn’t know the difference between non-fiction (true) and fiction (not true).  Those double negatives confuse a lot of people…the guy is like 90.  The movie deal is off.

Oprah must be embarrassed. One mistake is an accident, two mistakes is a trend.   She needs to have a new book club selection that is beyond reproach, an honest book that helps people, maybe about their jobs. Hmmmm, how about MINE?  Seriously.

In all humility, I would like to submit my book DIG YOUR JOB to Oprah for her next book club.  I will send it to her—does anyone know the name of the just-announced, new Harpo VP in Charge of Book Selection?

Oprah wishes she had someone to fire, I am betting.  If she doesn’t have this VP yet, she will soon.  She can’t make this same mistake a third time.

Do you have any candidates for this new position?  You tell me:  what would the job description look like?