by Farai Chideya

Remember that vicious debate over James Frey's memoir about addiction and redemption, A Million Little Pieces? The Smoking Gun's expose started with this line: "Oprah Winfrey's been had."

Oprah helped catapult Frey's memoir to the bestseller lists, via Oprah's Book Club.

Then, articles exposed him as someone who, ostensibly, masqueraded fiction as his own personal truth.

Then Oprah got angry. Really angry.

She did a whole show on how Frey lied and manipulated her and her readers. Her direct words were: "You conned us all."

Now veteran publisher Nan Talese ... months later ... is taking the angry-mic.

A YouTube video — capturing a CSPAN discussion — shows Talese accusing Oprah of, among other things, bad manners. And over 108,000 people, at last count, have watched the video clip.

(By the way, that's Talese in the shadows... but her words come through loud and clear.)

What's the line between memoir and fiction?

That's one of the issues we'll explore in our new monthly series, "The Black Literary Imagination."

So... how do you read Talese's words about Oprah: as justified upbraiding or raging rant?

Inquiring readers want to know...