James Frey

The Fakebook

Aaron Greenspan | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media

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Aaron Greenspan

It seems like Ben Mezrich has perfect idea for a book. There's only one problem: so far, the book is being billed as a memoir, and I don't recall seeing him at Harvard in 2003, because he wasn't there.

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In Defense of James Frey and Memoir

Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 05.30.2008 | Entertainment

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Lisa Dale Norton

The function of a memoir is to make a truth about a life lived that resonates in the bones of the writer and sends out shock waves of recognition to readers.

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James Frey emerges, with a novel about LA

AP | SARA ROSE | Posted 05.14.2008 | Media

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"Bright Shiny Morning" (HarperCollins, 501 pages, $26.95) by James Frey: In this age of controversial pseudo-memoirs, James Frey, the man who started ...

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James Frey And Nan Talese: Oprah Duped Us!

Huffington Post via Vanity Fair | Posted 04.30.2008 | Media

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Amid the Miley Cyrus hoopla, it's easy to forget that there's a whole issue of Vanity Fair that comes out today. And one article in the magazine that...

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Hillary Says She 'Misspoke' About Wrestling Bin Laden

Andy Borowitz | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

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Andy Borowitz

"I may have misspoke about what went on that particular day," Clinton said. "But it was a very busy time for me, what with having that knife-fight with Kim Jong-Il and all."

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Lie To Me

Heather McElhatton | Posted 03.24.2008 | Entertainment

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Heather McElhatton

People who get their moral turpitudes in a bunch over "untrue" memoirs are living in some alternate fairy tale land where there is only one truth and one truth only.

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My Non-Fake Memoir

Drew Grant | Posted 03.20.2008 | Entertainment

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Drew Grant

Some people would claim that the difference between literary fact and fiction lies only in the shelving section it's alloted in Borders, but they'd be wrong. What about Barnes and Nobles?

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Get Your White On, Margaret Seltzer!

Linda Keenan | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media

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Linda Keenan

It may be a tough and boring road for you, without those gunshot wounds and helicopter-hovers that seemed to liven up your drab suburban life. But we're here for you, Boo.

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Truth Matters

Evan Handler | Posted 03.06.2008 | Entertainment

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Evan Handler

No matter how gorgeously rendered, fiction can always be dismissed as invention. The truth is the truth, and there is nothing more powerful to a mind seeking inspiration than an already confirmed account.

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Clinton's Million Little Pieces Moment?

Clay Shirky | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

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Clay Shirky

Democratic voters care a great deal about process; Gore's 2000 loss was a calamity, and the idea that it might be perpetrated on us again by a member of our own party strikes us as a betrayal of trust.

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Oops! Kerry Does It Again! Embarrasses Barack and Oprah!

Martin Lewis | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics

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Martin Lewis

The John Kerry Foot-In-Mouth Award I love John Kerry. Like so many of us - I fought very hard to try and get him elected in 2004. Despite his best...

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HarperCollins Snubs NYT For Frey Book Scoop

New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 09.19.2007 | Media

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At 5:15 on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 29, James Frey informed his fans, in strikingly confident terms, that he had finished his first novel. "...

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HarperCollins To Publish New James Frey Novel In 2008

Wall Street Journal | JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG | Posted 09.12.2007 | Media

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Author James Frey, disgraced in a literary scandal and shunned by the publishing industry last year, has a new book deal. News Corp.'s HarperCollins ...

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