COMMENTL'AFFAIRE BLAIR by Hendrik HertzbergIssue of 2003-05-26Posted 2003-05-19 In "The Fabulist: A Novel," published last week by Simon & Schuster, Stephen Glass, once a young star writer for The New Republic, who, in 1998, was fired for fabricating a spectacular series of stories, tells the story of "Stephen Glass," a young star writer for "The Washington Weekly," who gets fired for fabricating a spectacular series of stories. Like Stephen Glass, "Stephen Glass" fakes not only the stories but also the notes and documentation to back them up, the better to fool his magazine's editors and its fact checker, Victoria. Victoria...