The Observer's Joe Hagan interviews Jayson Blair's (overly enthusiastic) literary agent, David Vigliano: "We'll probably do something in Hollywood first and hone the book proposal over the next few days...I think we will be getting the proposal out in a week or 10 days and expect to make a deal within a week after that." Hagan polled publishers, all of whom say they're not interested in the book. Books to which Blair's agent is comparing his potential novel: James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America, and Jill Nelson's Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience. And Mr. Vigliano has none of those inconvenient ethical reservations: "I don't have a problem repping a guy who made up a few stories and embarrassed The New York Times. He lost his job, and he's been the object of intense scrutiny. He did wrong, he obviously admitted it and paid the price, and I don t feel like it's any huge...he's not eating babies, you know?"
The Blair pitch project [Observer]