Il caso di Tommaso Debenedetti, il giornalista che si era evidentemente inventato le interviste scoop a Philip Roth e John Grisham, sta diventando materia da film: il New Yorker – in Italia non se ne è occupato nessuno neanche dopo che il Venerdì aveva sollevato la questione – ha scoperto un’altra montagna di apparenti falsi e ha parlato con Debenedetti.
Le investigazioni del NewYorker
Last night, in the online archives of Il Piccolo, a local paper published in Trieste where the Vidal Q. & A. first appeared, I found more than twenty additional interviews under Debenedetti’s byline purporting to be conversations by telephone or in person with some of the most eminent figures in world literature. The earliest was from 2006; the most recent was published last month. More than half of his subjects were Nobel laureates.
I began contacting these writers and their representatives. As of this afternoon: