from The Independent


Author seeks more controversy

Few novelists have whipped up quite so much of a storm in modern times as James Frey.

A Million Little Piecesturned out to be a work of fiction – is attempting to enlist two of the British cultural scene’s leading controversialists.

“I’m going to try and get Banksy or Damien Hirst to do the cover for my next book because I know what I want it to be,” he tells Pandora. “If I can get one of those guys to do it, it would be amazing.”

The Final Testament of the Bible, which Frey describes as a “reaction to the religious fundamentalism we’re seeing all over the world.”

Sounds right up Hirst’s street.

pandora@independent.co.uk

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