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NEWS ABOUT: James Frey

James Frey stories: 11 news summaries

  Top 9 Oprah Moments 

Crazy Tom Cruise, faker James Frey, and Sarah Palin make the cut

Nov 20, 09 9:42 AM CST
(Newser) - After 23 years of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the queen of talk has racked up quite a few memorable moments. In the wake of news that she's going to end the show in 2011, E! runs down the top nine, including Tom Cruise’s crazy couch dance, her car giveaway,... More »

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entertainment • Tom Cruise • Oprah Winfrey • celebrity • James Frey • Jennifer Aniston • talk show • David Letterman • daytime talk show • Ellen DeGeneres • Michael Jackson • Sarah Palin • Portia de Rossi • Sarah Palin Oprah Winfrey

NEW BOOK

James Frey's Latest Creation: 
Pro-Choice, Pro-Gay Jesus

Once Oprah's enemy, now Christians'?

Aug 12, 09 11:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - James Frey pissed off a lot of people—including Oprah—when his “memoir” A Million Little Pieces was exposed as fictional—but his new book might spark even more ire. Illumination: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible features a Messiah who marries gays, impregnates a teen,... More »

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Oprah Winfrey • James Frey • A Million Little Pieces • novel • book • Jesus Christ • fake memoirs • New Testament • Old Testament

 Oprah to Fake Memoirist: Sorry! 

Moment of reflection leads talk show queen to apologize

May 12, 09 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a moment worthy of, well, Oprah, talk-show queen Winfrey herself had an epiphany while meditating—and called memoir faker James Frey to apologize for publicly eviscerating him on her show. “When I heard her say, ‘I felt I owe you an apology,’ I was very grateful,... More »

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entertainment • Oprah Winfrey • James Frey • apology • A Million Little Pieces • Bright Shiny Morning • fake memoirs • Jay-ZTV

 Fake Memoirist Frey 
 Implies Dirt on Oprah 

Excerpt from new book seems to be based on Frey's experience

May 5, 09 9:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Does James Frey—who achieved infamy when Oprah Winfrey denounced his fake addiction memoir A Million Little Pieces—have dirt on the talk-show queen? That’s what he seems to imply in new novel Bright Shiny Morning, the New York Post reports. The paperback edition, out May 12, includes an... More »

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Oprah Winfrey • James Frey • A Million Little Pieces • Bright Shiny Morning • novel • fake memoirs

 Fake Holocaust Memoir 
 May See Light as Novel 

Henry Rosenblatt working to find outlet for disgraced story

Jan 8, 09 1:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Herman Rosenblat’s Holocaust memoir was exposed as fake, but that doesn’t mean no one can profit off it: A small New York press is considering publishing the work as fiction, Gawker reports. Rosenblat, who even fooled Oprah a la James Frey, spun a touching but debunked story about... More »

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Holocaust • Oprah Winfrey • concentration camp • publisher • James Frey • novel • book • fake memoirs • Herman Rosenblat • Roma Rosenblat

BOOK REVIEW

Shiny Morning No New Dawn for Frey

Critic lashes
fake memorist's
'execrable' new novel

May 13, 08 7:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - The flap over James Frey's memoir-that-really-wasn't was bound to cast some clouds over his new novel Bright Shiny Morning. But lack of believability continues to be a key issue for the author with his "execrable" new book of two-dimensional characters in a city that bears little resemblance to LA,... More »

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Los Angeles • fiction • James Frey • memoir • book reviews • A Million Little Pieces • novel

 James Frey Returns,
 Like It or Not 

Nonfiction fantasist's new novel will be on sale soon

May 2, 08 4:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - James Frey regrets nothing. In an interview with Vanity Fair to promote his new novel, Bright Shiny Morning, the author discusses the 2006 controversy regarding his "memoir," A Million Little Pieces, and how he was vilified by the media and humiliated by Oprah Winfrey. "I've said all... More »

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Oprah Winfrey • James Frey • A Million Little Pieces • Oprah's Book Club • scandal

TV REVIEW

With Big Give, Oprah Shows Smaller Side

Reality charity show provokes sniffles, but writer calls it vain

Mar 21, 08 6:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The new ABC show Oprah’s Big Give might be exactly what it claims—an epically scaled, nurturing-obsessed cult of personality—but the format is old and unsuitable, Nancy Franklin writes in the New Yorker, and the star is self-obsessed. The competition charity program sometimes reduced to her tears, Franklin... More »

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philanthropy • reality TV • ABC • Oprah Winfrey • competition • Ford • James Frey • Oprah's Big Give

 How to Fake a Memoir 

Embellish the story without getting caught, Slate scribe suggests

Mar 12, 08 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Misha Defonseca's memoir left a sticky trail of lies about escaping Nazis and living with wolves. (It turns out wolf saliva isn't an antiseptic.) Tired of careless fabricators, Slate writes a how-to for aspiring fakers:
  • Keep it vague. Dates are verifiable—"awhile" is not.
  • Watch
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humor • James Frey • memoir • author • Margaret Seltzer • fake memoirs • Misha Defonseca • Margaret B. Jones • Nadine Gordimer • Asa Carter

Fake Memoir Author Pens Debut Novel

'A Million Little Pieces' writer James Frey calls it fiction this time

Sep 13, 07 2:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Disgraced author James Frey, whose memoir "A Million Little Pieces" was revealed as fiction last year, will publish a debut novel, "Bright Shiny Morning," with HarperCollins, the Wall Street Journal reports. Frey's fabricated memoir about losing his life to drug addiction sold some 3 million copies and... More »

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fiction • Oprah Winfrey • James Frey • memoir • HarperCollins • A Million Little Pieces • Bright Shiny Morning • novel • book

Literati Rejoin the Fray
Over Frey

Publisher Nan Talese assaults Oprah, a year later, in absentia

Jul 31, 07 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - More than a year after Oprah delivered her on-air dressing-down to James Frey for fictionalizing his own memoir, his publisher, Nan Talese, hasn't forgiven or forgotten.  At a literary convention in Texas last weekend, Talese called Oprah's behavior  "mean and self-serving,"  said the confrontation was "... More »

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Oprah Winfrey • Nan Talese • James Frey • Joyce Carol Oates • book

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