The Viewspaper (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I have rarely trusted recommendations, least of all when it comes to books. When I was told that this was a memoir of a drug addict detailing his journey of rehabilitation towards sobriety... Visit The Viewspaper to read the full article.
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | yesterday
... J. Sheilds Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Ulysses by James Joyce Bought (40) (found 2 local used book stores) (And then went to 2 library used book sales) Would-Be Witch by Kimberly Frost The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl Ghosts of Boyfriends Past by Carly Alexander Sex, Murder and a Double Latte by Kyra Davis Cravings - Anthology Wish Club by Kim Strickland...
LimitedHype (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Random Fairey news: Doing his best James Frey, Shepard Fairey recently reversed his previous position on the reference photo used for his Obama-HOPE poster. Fairey now admits to providing false sources, deleting evidence and says it was indeed the Mannie Garcia photograph (as the AP has alleged all along) that was used in creating the [...]
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
James Frey was forced to sit down and let Oprah tear him to pieces before a studio audience because he committed the greatest crime a writer could commit. He made a bunch of people feel something when they read a novel. They thought they were reading something real. They connected with it and felt something. [...]
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Ira Silverberg thanked Harper Perennial for sponsoring the event and noted that the Bee was part of Harper’s effort to reach out to small presses and online journals like HTML Giant and its editors. People clapped. I clapped. I wondered who in this room filled with pillars of print publishing was wondering what HTML Giant was. I wondered if they all knew. –”James Frey, Ben Greenman and...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... Booksellers were proclaiming the form dead, and agents opined it was all about the first novel. James Frey had just sullied the genre, and there was the teeny detail of the aftermath of my first memoir: I was disowned. After USA Today called that first book "stunningly honest," people told me how much they loved the book, how it changed their lives, how gorgeous it is and so on. I...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By Mark SandersonPublished: 6:05PM GMT 04 Nov 2009In 2005, thanks to Oprah Winfrey’s book club, James Frey’s memoir of addiction, A Million Little Pieces, was outsold only by the latest Harry Potter. Its anecdotes about undergoing root-canal surgery without anaesthetic and mixing with the bad boys in prison soon turned out to be just as preposterous as any of the goings-on at Hogwarts....
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... I want to win." "The Adderall Diaries" is neither a Kerouac-like brag, nor an "Oprah"-ready, James Frey-style record of suffering and recovery. Rather, it is its own weird hybrid, a painfully honest and meticulously crafted memoir wrapped around a true-crime story that gets to the very essence of its time and place. In April, Stephen Elliott talked to Jacket Copy about the Rumpus....
