Dunne Blasts L.A. Times Over Review

Staff -- Library Journal, 1/19/1998

Author Dominick Dunne allegedly has sent a scathing letter to L.A. Times's book editor Steve Wasserman blasting the paper over its review by Gary Indiana of his recent title Another City, Not My Own (Crown, 1997). Gossip diva Liz Smith reports that Dunne accused Wasserman of "deliberately assigning an enemy" to write the review, which Smith said Dunne described as a "hate letter." Indiana's January 4 review says the fictionalized account of the O.J. Simpson case "might be described as a screed in the guise of a memoir advertised as a novel." Of the author himself, Indiana states that "Indignation is Dunne's forte...[he] has made a fortune off the cable chitchat circuit, where he can be found most any evening, nattering through his dentures about O.J. Simpson minutiae." The novel is enjoying brisk sales and is currently riding the NY Times Best Sellers list for its sixth week.