After hearing about the newest Holocaust book hoax (see this item from yesterday’s MobyLives digest), Publishers Weekly editor-in-chief Sara Nelson says in a her latest commentary that “my annoyance is not so much with Herman Rosenblat, the Buchenwald survivor who has now admitted that he made up the story—praised by none other than Oprah Winfrey—about the “angel at the fence,” the girl who supposedly tossed him apples and then, miraculously, reappeared in his life 12 years later (on a blind date, no less)….. No—the culprit here is, plain and simple, our own beloved book business. How, after so many fake-memoir scandals of very recent vintage, could no one at Berkley have asked the kind of question that any intelligent 12-year-old would ask. To wit: ‘Wow, that’s a bunch of wild coincidences—did this really happen?”’ True enough. But why is the book industry the only culprit here? As was pointed out in MobyLives yesterday, newspapers–none of whom employ fact checkers, either — are jumping all over the book business for this one. But none of the critics who have chimed in on this so far have criticized the newspaper where Rosenblat’s patently absurd story originated: the New York Post, which, as Nelson notes, not only published Rosenblat’s whopper as gospel—they gave him an award for it.