James Frey

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James Frey F's the Bulls--t, It's Time to Cash Out
Fake memoirist and most self-important author of our time James Frey is selling his Manhattan apartment. It was listed for $5 mil originally, but he recently took $500,000 off the asking price. (When times are hard, we all have to make sacrifices.) From a Curbed commenter: "He needs to up his meds and hold his ground on the price." Also: "make sure the square footage is right, he may be lying about that too." As Frey's tattoo says, "Fuck the bullshit, it's time to throw down." [Curbed; art by Karen Caldicott]

4:53 PM on Tue Oct 14 2008
By Sheila
1,264 views, 16 comments

Most discussed Baroness: Cannot. Cannot. Describe what this piece of shit's "success" as a writer has done to devalue and fuck up the more »
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James Frey Says He'll Keep "Twisting The Lines Of Fact"
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 author again now, and in case you forgot Norman Mailer once had his back, that's right God damned Norman Mailer. "He is beyond unrepentant," the Times of London writes. That's actually putting it mildly. In an interview with the paper, Frey basically promises to lie some more, punch everyone in the face and finish the bible like the second, ballsier coming of Moses. More »

11:10 PM on Mon Aug 4 2008
By Ryan Tate
2,494 views, 46 comments

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Flack Pimps Business Via Huffington Post Column
Oh, hey, look who got a blog or column or whatever on the Huffington Post — Joe Dolce! How convenient that is for the thoroughly obnoxious former Star editor, because it turns out his new PR business, shepherded into existence by patron and fellow sometime slimeball James Frey, is promising clients it can "guide you through the new media landscape — ensuring that the attention you receive is the attention you want." The HuffPo slot will surely prove useful in that regard! Or at least it will once Dolce and business partner Davidson Goldin scare up some clients. For now, Dolce appears to be using his column to do some ambitious prospecting. He suggests a "summit" between celebrities and paparazzi, which will never work, especially given who Dolce suggests might host it: More »

9:19 PM on Mon Jul 28 2008
By Ryan Tate
1,085 views, 15 comments

Latest by beckett_boy: vic reeves??? more »
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"Bad on Purpose": the NYT's Divergent Views on James Frey
The first review that the New York Times wrote of fabricating memoirist James Frey's new novel, Bright Shiny Morning, was gushy to the point that it was written in the style of his novel. (It ran in the Arts section and was written by Janet Maslin.) But the NYT's Book Review takes it on this week—this time, the results are the literary equivalent of dropping a piano on an author's head. "Stupefying" and "Wikipedian" are some of the kinder words issued. At one point, it is actually suggested that maybe Frey is being bad on purpose. More »

10:16 AM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Sheila
3,841 views, 47 comments

Latest by Awestruck: @MmeSosostris: I write everything in this style, and it works for me. more »
Oprah BFF Forgives, Plugs James Frey "James Frey might be a surprising choice, but I liked A Million Little Pieces." [Post]

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'James Frey' Arrested For Being Pervert Not that James Frey. Some other guy named James Frey. Still: name curse? [NYP]

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James Frey Rewards His Saviors
Fabricating memoirist James Frey earned a $1.5 million advance for his novel Bright Shiny Morning, and sales are strong. Now Frey is paying forward his riches from the book, and the money seems to be making a circle back toward the people who staged his comeback in the first place. Frey, the Post reported today, hired his wife's friend Davidson Goldin, former editorial director at MSNBC, to help with publicity on Bright Shiny Morning. Now flush, it would seem, with surplus cash, Goldin is starting a "media-strategy and branding consulting firm." And who did Frey steer to Goldin as a partner in this endeavor? Joe Dolce, the former Star magazine editor-in-chief famous for his poor management and communication skills. But there's a very relevant detail about Dolce and his relationship to Frey the Post omitted: More »

7:29 AM on Fri May 30 2008
By Ryan Tate
2,159 views, 13 comments

Latest by skahammer: I was at Frey's reading here in Boston on Tuesday, and I was stunned to see the number of 30-and-under more »
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James Frey's Lies Are Bestsellers Again
Good news for fabricating memoirist James Frey and his once-embattled publisher: His first novel, Bright Shiny Morning, just debuted at number 9 on the Times bestseller list, with 14,000 copies sold. "We hear HarperCollins is pleased," reports the Observer's Leon Neyfakh. Among the many, many people not sharing the publisher's glee are certain proud citizens of Los Angeles, who have begun to notice false statements in the book about their city and its history. "New York reviewers adore the book because they think it nails L.A.," wrote LA Observed. But get this: It doesn't! The book is filled with awful, awful LIES! More »

10:02 PM on Wed May 21 2008
By Ryan Tate
3,751 views, 42 comments

Latest by kanndee: Hasn't anyone ever heard of "Fake it till you make it?". He has been on Oprah and is famous....we are more »
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James Frey on the Picket Line: A Short Scene
Now that James Frey is shilling his new novel, a screenwriter who walked the picket line during last fall's strike wrote in to share his experience with Frey, who "showed up to carry a sign and (I suspect) generally be seen. A female writer saw him and truly didn't recognize him at all. Here was the exchange that happened..." More »

10:11 AM on Wed May 21 2008
By Sheila
3,017 views, 20 comments

Latest by BowlingAlleyLawyer: @gawkimo: Congrats. You just called a literature teacher "semi-literate". That would be me. And that whole three-years-in-law-school-thing... begs to differ as well. But more »
That Explains It James Frey on his writing style: "I also never really read my own writing, so I try to make it perfect the first time through." [WP]

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