Reading James Frey’s Gawker Comments So You Don’t Have To
As GalleyCat reported this morning, memoirist-turned-novelist James Frey interned for Gawker editor Sheila McClear today. GalleyCat sifted through Frey’s long comment thread, answering a variety of mostly nonsensical reader questions.
Frey explained why he did the internship: “It’s to pad my resume in case publishing completely and totally collapses.” Then he offered advice for Gawker publisher Nick Denton: “If I was Denton, I’d cash out and retire and forget about all of it.” And finally, he advised the perfect gift for a 4-year-old boy: “A truck, a hot wheel collection, anything to do with superheroes.”
Frey’s favorite book this year was Robert Bolano‘s novel, 2666. He concluded with a list of writers he admired, including: “Bret Easton Ellis, William Vollmann, Neal Stephenson, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Charlie Houston.”