"While this novel was inspired by certain events in my life, it does not recount the actual events of my life," Mr. Glass writes. "This book is a work of fiction, a fabrication, and this time, an admitted one."
But the novel closely follows Mr. Glass's story, again blurring the line between reality and imagination.
"The creep is doing it again," said Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic. "Even when it comes to reckoning with his own sins, he is still incapable of nonfiction. The careerism of his repentance is repulsively consistent with the careerism of his crimes."
The novel's narrator, also named Stephen, is a writer for the fictional Washington Weekly, whose style and political views closely resemble The New Republic's. Mr. Glass calls that style ironic contrarian.-NYT