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Jayson Blair, the diminutive ex-journalist who shook up the mighty New York Times when his serial plagiarism was revealed last year, has all but evaporated from public view. Now seeing a psychiatrist and a psychologist and working out of a basement office in his parents' home in Centreville, Va., he says he has found God and thinks he has a calling other than journalism — although he's not sure what it is yet. The one thing that hasn't changed is his compulsive reading habit. And on his bedside table these days is Seth Mnookin's chronicle of the Times debacle, "Hard...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, two young journalists notorious for fabricating stories, have something else in common: Both have written highly publicized books that few people are buying.</p> <p>Blair, a former New York Times reporter, received a six-figure advance for "Burning Down My Master's House." Published March 6, the book had an announced first printing of 250,000 and plenty of media coverage, including author interviews with Katie Couric on NBC and Larry King on CNN.</p>

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN MAR 7, 2004 22:10:18 ET XXXXX NY TIMES SET TO SLAM JAYSON BLAIR 'TELL ALL' The NEW YORK TIMES is set to trash disgraced former reporter Jayson Blair's alleged tell-all account behind the journalism scandal that rocked the Old Gray Lady and forced the resignations of Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd in the Summer of '03. "Should you believe anything written by a serial liar?" Jack Shafer, on loan from Slate.com, begins his dissection of 'Burning Down My Master's House' -- a review that is set for publication next week...

NEW YORK A dispute over what constitutes a newspaper embargo and copyright infringement has arisen between the publisher of disgraced former reporter Jayson Blair's forthcoming book and The New York Times, leading the publisher to seek receipts for a purported Amazon.com purchase of the book by a Times staffer. New Millennium Press of Beverly Hills, Calif., contends that the Times, in an article published last Friday, broke an embargo when it ran several quotes from the book. New Millennium President Michael Viner said he sent the paper an advance copy of the book, titled "Burning Down My Masters' House" last...

Jayson Blair's book about his tumultuous tenure at The New York Times hits bookstores this week, but his former bosses already are criticizing it. Burning Down My Master's House (New Millennium) "does not merit much attention," said a memo to staffers last week by executive editor Bill Keller and managing editors Jill Abramson and Bill Geddes. "The author is an admitted fabricator. (Chapter One begins, 'I lied and I lied - and then I lied some more.') The book pretends to be a mea culpa, but ends up spewing imaginary blame in all directions. We don't intend to respond to...

NEW YORK--- A dispute over what constitutes a newspaper embargo and copyright infringement has arisen between the publisher of disgraced former reporter Jayson Blair's forthcoming book and The New York Times, leading the publisher to seek receipts for a purported Amazon.com purchase of the book by a Times staffer. New Millennium Press of Beverly Hills, Calif., contends that the Times, in an article published last Friday, broke an embargo when it ran several quotes from the book. New Millennium President Michael Viner said he sent the paper an advance copy of the book, titled "Burning Down My Masters' House" last...

He's back ... and blaring. Jayson Blair, whose serial fabrications and deceit rocked The New York Times last year, revisits the whole sad story in a 300-page memoir about drug use, mental instability and hard times at the paper. In "Burning Down My Masters' House," obtained by the Daily News before it goes on sale next week, the ex-reporter offers his own distorted look at the scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of The Times' two top editors. Blair - at times self-pitying, at times self-righteous - goes into greater, often lurid detail about how he came unhinged and...

NEW YORK -- The long wait is over. Now you can order Jayson Blair's forthcoming book, Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at The New York Times at amazon.com. The cover of the tightly guarded book, which will not be published until March, is also available at the online bookseller. It features a mock front page of the Times, with the paper's logo partly cut off at the top, the book title as a huge headline, and a fairly small picture of Blair in a light colored T-shirt (but looking very serious) in the lower right corner. You can...

<p>The spelling of Jayson Blair's first name suggests that he is black. Seeing the name when I read an article about the first indications that he had been fabricating stories for the New York Times, a chill went up my spine. What worried me was not that a black person had been screwing up. We can expect that black people, as human beings, will have their bad days like anyone else. But I imagined one direction the fracas might go: that Jayson just might "spin" the story into a tale of discrimination.</p>

<p>September 12, 2003 -- THE Jayson Blair book. Seems everyone's itchy to see this manuscript, except maybe the menopausal Gray Lady's ex-lover Howell Raines, who doesn't even want to see this human being. But seems everyone else does. The final deal, after a fortnight talking it over, was finally only officially concluded Monday. Tuesday Michael Viner, the publisher of New Millennium, who lives on the West Coast, and Jayson Blair, the pariah who lives on the East Coast, met face-to-face for the first time. They clinked bagels for luck at a power breakfast at the Regency. And everybody - Bob Tisch, Larry King, Neil Simon, Walter Cronkite - came by the table. Says Viner: "I didn't realize I was that popular."</p>