The Frey Guys
Thanks be to Oprah, Larry King and Anderson Cooper tonight, truth-challenged writer James Frey is enjoying more publicity than he ever would for "A Million Little Pieces," his waste of 400-plus pages of apparent fiction masquerading as a so-called memoir of his junkie days.Note to future writers who make it into a publishing house's good graces: Just tell the truth. It's easier.
All this said, I'm stopping giving that jackass anymore publicity -- even on a blog no one reads -- right now.
posted by rekkidbraka @ 10:47 PM
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There's always the old adage...
Truth is stranger than fiction
THAT being said, him finally admitting the truth seems stranger than him just writing fiction in the first place
I don't get what all the fuss is about. Maybe I'm missing something, but I think it's really strange that the author is being so shamefaced about it all. To me, the act of telling a story makes it just that-- a story.
The problem is that saying someone hung herself when she actually slit her wrists isn't taking literary license in a memoir - it's playing loose and fast with facts to make the so-called story of your life more salacious than it obviously was. That's wrong if you're going to market your book as non-fiction.
At the minimum, all Frey had to do was put a note at the start saying "Events in this book have been altered to protect the identities of blah blah blah..." and there wouldn't be such hullaballoo. But he went out and acted like all this happened as he said it did and until he was outed, he wasn't going to say anything about the discrepancies.
The bottom line? He did the genre of memoir a disservice through misrepresenting events and his editors completely fell down on the job. Now anyone who takes a memoir that's been carefully and truthfully written to a publisher is going to face brutally harsh scrutiny thanks to this loser.
Just don't lie. That's all I'm saying. If you want to make events in your life more sensational than they were, couch them as fiction. Don't lie and equate the act of hanging oneself with slitting your wrists. They're both suicide but no - ultimately, they aren't the same thing and it's wrong to even hint that they are.
JMHO...
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