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Ever since James Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces” debacle, with Oprah tearing up the author for fabricating large swaths of his “memoir” (not long after praising him in a show devoted to his book), the whole genre has been under fire. When exactly does a memoir cross the line into fiction? Is all memoir fiction,…

Any Tolkien fan can tell you that J.R.R. Tolkien, a faithful Catholic, was pals with pop theologian C.S. Lewis, and that he laced his Lord of the Rings trilogy with Christian theology. What’s not always obvious, however, is how. What’s a hobbit got to do with the Messiah? The “new” Tolkien book, “The Children of…

In case you haven’t seen it yet, Beliefnet recently posted an interesting gallery on how its readers have credited the “law of attraction”–the idea that we create our reality with our thoughts, popularized by the controversial best-selling book and DVD, “The Secret”–as having worked miracles in their lives (ie: quitting smoking, getting money for college,…

Between the front page New York Times Style section article “Shaking Riches Out of the Cosmos,” which marvels about the fact that “The Secret” book is sitting atop the New York Times Hardcover Advice Bestseller List, and Newsweek’s online extravaganza “Decoding ‘The Secret,’” not to mention an official Oprah stamp of approval (she’s dedicated two…
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