James Frey is the author of A Million Little Pieces, a harrowing memoir of his recovery from a life of addiction and crime.James Frey is the author of A Million Little Pieces, a harrowing memoir of his recovery from a life of addiction and crime. On the strength of an endorsement by Oprah Winfrey, it sold twice as many copies as pieces. But now, thanks to the website The Smoking Gun, all the world (that is, literary New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) knows that Mr. Frey made much of it, and all the good stuff, up. E.g., Frey says he spent three months in jail, when he actually spent a few hours in a police station, waiting for his bond to be posted; he didn't undergo root canal root canal n. 1. The chamber of the dental pulp lying within the root portion of a tooth. Also called pulp canal. 2. without anesthesia; he didn't love a crack ho; etc., etc. The writerly writ·er·ly adj. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or befitting a writer: "set a standard of writerly craft for that...well-wrought magazine" Newsweek. classes are atwitter a·twit·ter adj. Being in a state of nervous excitement; twittering: a crowd atwitter with expectation. about the future of the memoir genre. Us, we're angry at Frey because we paid him $20,000 for an excerpt, which he turned around and sold to both Granta and Hustler. We caught him in a parking lot, though, and broke his legs and made him give it back. Punk. Teach you to mess with NR. |
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