Ace and Hoser Blook (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey Fiction/Literature Frey is the controversial author of A Million Little Pieces and comes back for his third novel, and first try at fiction. This book has Los Angeles as a character as much as the novel is set in LA. In the beginning, we get many stories of people living in LA. Artists, immigrants, homeless, movie stars, runaways, bloggers, gang...
The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
James Frey's Bright Shiny Morning comes out in the U.K. this week, and the press has started to come in. The most interesting thing so far is a dramatic little feature from the Times called " The US Antihero " by Alan Franks. Quotes from Frey are peppered throughout the piece, including this doozy: I've been in conflict with everything for my whole life. That's the rule, not the...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Apparently we're now at the stage in the James Frey career trajectory where the once-disgraced writer can stop pretending he's sorry for lying in his memoir and on Oprah, because he's a bestselling...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Review: Bright Shiny Morning by James FreyIrvine Welsh is entranced by James Frey's tale of redemption - 'the literary comeback of the decade'
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
She is 26 years old. She is originally from Indianapolis. She has lived in LA for nine months, she moved here to become a publicist, her family did not approve. Three weeks ago she was walking through a parking garage, it was late at night, she had been on a first date, she had had two glasses of wine with dinner. Her date had wanted to walk to her car, but she liked him, really liked him, he was...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
James Frey returns with his new book, Bright Shiny Morning, about life in Los Angeles - it is being sold as his first work of fiction, reports Stephanie West.
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
In today's "Wavy Rule," Paul addresses the question: What does a James Frey novel smell like? Click to enlarge! More by Paul Morris: Our very own upside-down question-mark naming contest ! Plus, " The Wavy Rule " archive; a very funny webcomic, " Arnjuice "; a motley Flickr page ; various beautifully off-kilter cartoon collections for sale and free download at Lulu .
Lingual Tremors (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
... lived and loved. Memoir encourages lying. (Come on, come on--you know what I'm talking about. James Frey, anyone?) Memoir encourages great stories, self-aggrandizement, self-indulgence, and without exception, serious egos. In general, that's not my cup of tea. I'd rather read my fiction as fiction without having to distinguish between the little lies and the big lies.Much has been...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
The Times vetted the hell out of Kate Brennan, who's written In His Sights, "one of the first full-length memoirs of a stalking victim." In the wake of fake memoirists—JT Leroy, James Frey, and...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
David Carr's brutally honest memoir of the years in which he was a gun-toting crack-cocaine addict who slapped women around is somehow charming. It is exactly the effect that James Frey was going for in "A Million Little Pieces," but the difference is "The Night of the Gun" is all true.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
... "He uses Darfur as an example of how broke the machine is"Stephanie West has an interview with James Frey, he of the book "defrocking" on Oprah. He's released a new novel that has critics split it seems. LA critics hate it, New York critics love it - but as it's apparently written about LA that may explain matters... A new addition has appeared on our prospects list "Jurywatch" -...
