So, What Did O.J. Simpson Write Exactly?

A week after Newsweek published details about "The Night in Question"?a chapter in O.J. Simpson's If I Did It?Vanity Fair contributing editor James Wolcott discusses the entire book, including describing the author's portrayals of Nicole Brown Simpson as a "major mood swinger" and himself as a "soft, chocolate marshmallow."

"The 'hypothetical' scenario allows Simpson to have it both ways," Wolcott writes, "to put himself at the crime scene with motive, opportunity, and furious velocity, yet dissociate himself from the actual stabbings, as if the murders somehow committed themselves while he happened to be there holding the knife."

If I Did It was ghostwritten by frequent ReganBooks author Pablo Fenjves and was canceled in November. (HarperCollins subsequently fired editor and publisher Judith Regan and shut down her eponymous imprint.) Yet Simpson's attorney, Yale Galanter, is currently shopping a new book proposal, which would be a "tastefully done portrait of [Simpson's] marriage to Nicole," according to Wolcott.

"After finished If I Did It, I didn't feel any inward swelling of moral outrage or righteous disgust, didn't hatch any profound insights into sex, race, and violence in America," Wolcott writes, "I just wanted everyone connected with it to go away."