{"id":1174,"date":"2008-12-12T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T06:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/12\/jf-gawker-thread\/"},"modified":"2008-12-13T09:37:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T16:37:36","slug":"jf-gawker-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/12\/jf-gawker-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"JF Gawker Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reading James Frey’s Gawker Comments So You Don’t Have To<\/h2>\n

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\"jamesfrey.jpg\"As GalleyCat\u00a0reported this morning<\/a>, memoirist-turned-novelist\u00a0James Frey<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0interned for Gawker editor\u00a0Sheila McClear<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0today. GalleyCat sifted through Frey’s long\u00a0comment thread<\/a>, answering a variety of mostly nonsensical reader questions.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Nick Denton<\/a><\/strong>: “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.”<\/p>\n

Frey’s favorite book this year was\u00a0Robert Bolano<\/a><\/strong>‘s novel,\u00a02666<\/em>. He concluded with a list of writers he admired, including: “Bret Easton Ellis<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0William Vollmann<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Neal Stephenson<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Jhumpa Lahiri<\/a><\/strong>, and\u00a0Charlie Houston<\/a><\/strong>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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from MediaBistro Reading James Frey’s Gawker Comments So You Don’t Have To   As GalleyCat\u00a0reported this morning, memoirist-turned-novelist\u00a0James Frey\u00a0interned for Gawker editor\u00a0Sheila McClear\u00a0today. GalleyCat sifted through Frey’s long\u00a0comment 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}