you know there s a layer of lawyers at the book publishers that examines this and another layer of lawyers at new york magazines and they re more strict than the book lawyers and had to pass through both of those lairs to get to publication. absolutely. as somebody that another book i published this last fall, a parody of donald trump s memoir and the lawyering on that was intense. so imagine a nonfiction book for starters. yes, indeed. 7,000-word excerpt in new york magazine no doubt lawyered by the magazine s lawyers and fact checked by the magazine s fact checkers. so i don t think the credibility has been significantly challenged. and there s a lot of what i take to be kind of sour grapes envy on the part of some journalists saying we all knew that. to me that s the problem. if you all knew that and understandably because you re a beat reporter, you can t sort of
strict than the book lawyers and had to pass through both of those lairs to get to publication. absolutely. as somebody that another book i published this last fall, a parody of donald trump s memoir and the lawyering on that was intense. so imagine a nonfiction book for starters. yes, indeed. 7,000-word excerpt in new york magazine no doubt lawyered by the magazine s lawyers and fact checked by the magazine s fact checkers. so i don t think the credibility has been significantly challenged. and there s a lot of what i take to be kind of sour grapes envy on the part of some journalists saying we all knew that. to me that s the problem. if you all knew that and understandably because you re a beat reporter, you can t sort of go for the jugular as michael could with this book because he doesn t have to maintain relationships.