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As a professional journalist, when is blatantly making up stories, lying to your editors and finally confessing to fabricating 27 major articles considered a good career move? Apparently when you're Stephen Glass. The former writer for The New Republic, who was fired five years ago for completely making up a series of major articles, has written a fictional account of his deceit--and how he ultimately got caught. According to the New York Times, "Mr. Glass has written a first-person account of an ambitious young journalist who slips from truth into reckless fraud, even concocting bogus notes and voice-mail messages to deceive editors and fact checkers." Glass' book, "The Fabulist," will be released next week by Simon & Schuster.