Simon & Schuster Stands Behind Arday Memoir Amid Accuracy Dispute

Simon & Schuster will publish Cambridge academic Jason Arday's memoir "Great and Unfortunate Things" despite The Telegraph calling it "more fiction than fact." The hardcover stays listed at $29.00. Arday claims a £1.4 million advance (an upfront payment to the author), unconfirmed by the publisher. Confidence in the book or commercial calculus — either way, the text faces scrutiny on release.