Jonah Lehrer, The New Yorker | featured news

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has pulled a second book by disgraced journalist Jonah Lehrer, How We Decide, after an internal fact-checking review. The publisher pulled his book Imagine after it came out that he had fabricated quotes, and he resigned from his position at The New Yorker.

A staff writer for The New Yorker has resigned and his best-selling book has been halted after he acknowledged inventing quotes by Bob Dylan. Jonah Lehrer released a statement Monday through his publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, saying that some Dylan quotes appearing in "Imagine: How Creativity Works" did "not exist." Others were "unintentional misquotations, or represented improper combinations of previously existing quotes."