The Works of James Frey

[genevieve]

Hot diggity dog this is entertaining stuff. I guess he had a number of rejections from publishers until he said this was a memoir.

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mallebabbe said:

Let's see... We've got James Frey, JT Leroy, Augusten Burroughs, the author of "A Child Called IT", and the ghost writer of "Go Ask Alice.

Holy Cow, we have a literary poser basketball team!

Don't forget the author of Sleepers Lorenzo Carcaterra, though it is called a novel now, it sure was marketed as a true story when it was first published.

Lying to Oprah is one thing. But Carcaterra lied to Tom Snyder and said it was all true. That ain't right.

Ahh, I was so young and naive back then I thought creative non-fiction only happened to bad readers.

[heyalice]

Sleepers? Really? I did not know that. An enjoyable book, TERRIBLE movie.

[natchou]

Oh for God's sake, that one too?? You mean I was scarred for life when I saw the boys in the movie getting molested by the policemen because I thought it really happened and it's all bull?!?

BTW, where can I find proof that "A child called It" is not true??

[swanflake]

This fake memoir stuff is very intriguing. We should have a thread on it.

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Oprah has spoken:

Oprah Winfrey broke her silence about James Frey's disputed memoir of addiction, "A Million Little Pieces," dismissing allegations of falsehoods as "much ado about nothing" and urging readers who have been inspired by the book to "Keep holding on."

"What is relevant is that he was a drug addict ... and stepped out of that history to be the man he is today and to take that message to save other people and allow them to save themselves," Winfrey said Wednesday night in a surprise phone call to CNN's Larry King, who was interviewing Frey on his live television program.
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Frey, in his first interview since The Smoking Gun story came out, acknowledged he had embellished parts of the book but said that was common for memoirs and defended "the essential truth" of "A Million Little Pieces."

"The book is about drug addiction and alcoholism," he said. "The emotional truth is there."

They're both asses.

[sugaree]

James Frey kind of looks like a fat otter, doesn't he?

[emersende]

What a couple of schmucks. Did he really say "Let the haters hate?" What is he, Fred Durst?

[swanflake]

They discussed this on "The View" today about this whole scandal, but it was obvious that the shrews didn't have any idea what they were talking about. Embellishments my ass. He took an account of a girl's death and changed it from 12th grade to 8th grade and said the whole town blamed him when really he was never involved.

But for what's it worth, he was really cute when he was in college.

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James Frey to Add Author's Note to Memoir