James Frey
(for more on James Frey’s comeback, see Site605)
Quote: “There were days when I definitely didn’t want to get out of bed,” author James Frey said. He was talking with Lola Ogunnaike on CNN in the AM, after a Tuesday reading from his new book, Bright, Shiny Morning at NY’s Blender Theater (interesting selection of music- he had a jazz pianist with him and has booked a metal band for next stops on his tour). Ogunnaike noted the passage at the beginning of the book stating, “Nothing in this book should be considered accurate or reliable,”.
Protests Abound: “Down With Frey”, a Berkeley organization, planned to protest James Frey’s scheduled reading at Slim’s in San Francisco. 2 years after fraudulent claims of crack addiction and other dramas including a root canal without anasthesia, Frey’s megabestselling “memoir” A Million Little Pieces was exposed as having been concocted, the author has a new book out called Bright Shiny Morning.
He says his group is also conducting “a charity drive.” All donated copies of Frey’s books will be brought to an Oakland recycling center, he vows; the proceeds will go to 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing program founded by yet another memoirist, Dave Eggers, for children in San Francisco’s Mission District. At the protest, Frel and his fellow protesters will distribute essays to attendees analyzing Frey’s disgrace “and why he’s a stain on society.”
