Sign up for our newsletters! Nan Talese   Oprah: What did you do
as the publisher of this book to make sure that what you were
printing was true?  Nan Talese: As the publisher of the book, I
read the manuscript. I thought this was an absolutely—I would
say there was an authenticity in the book. That experience that
I responded to, and people have different levels of pain, and I
thought, excruciating as the dentistry was, it was not
impossible.  Secondly, I shared it with my colleagues. There
were no questions. Then what happens with a book is the editor
goes over a manuscript with an author and if there's anything
that does not seem true, we question the author. Then it goes to
a copy editor. All along in the process of this book, in
retrospect it might seem, you know, how could everybody be that
stupid and that dumb? But in fact, all the way through in the
first nine months of the book...  Oprah: That book is so
fantastical, I will say, that, really, that's not washing with
me. But I just want to know becaus