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Accusations that author James Frey fabricated parts of his memoir, "A Million Little Pieces" has sparked a controvery over publishing fiction in a memoir. Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. Wednesday night, James Frey was likely doing both. Frey is the author of "A Million Little Pieces," a book about his recovery from years of drug use and alcoholism.

It's been an enormous hit, selling 3. I've acknowledged that there were embellishments in the book, you know, that I've changed things, that in certain cases things were toned up, in certain cases things were toned down, that names were changed, that identifying characteristics were changed.

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The trouble for Frey began when an investigative Web site called thesmokinggun. The Web site found Frey invented several stories, including hitting a policeman while drunk and serving three months in jail. Yeah, a memoir is within the genre of nonfiction I don't think it's necessarily appropriate to say I've conned anyone. You know, the book is pages long.

The total page count of disputed events is 18, which is less than 5 percent of the total book. You know, that falls comfortably within the realm of what's appropriate for a memoir. The book got a huge boost in sales when talk show host Oprah Winfrey chose it for her book club, her first non- fiction selection. The underlying message of redemption in James Frey's memoir still resonates with me.

And I know that it resonates with millions of other people who have read this book. But Winfrey also didn't disagree that the book might better have been published as fiction, and said she relies on the publisher to define a book's category.