{"id":13821,"date":"2025-06-10T11:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13821"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:16:57","slug":"everybody-wants-a-hug-and-a-pulitzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/10\/everybody-wants-a-hug-and-a-pulitzer\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody wants a hug and a Pulitzer."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from People Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Million Little Pieces<\/em> Author James Frey Opens Up About Oprah Winfrey Controversy: \u2018Brutal Hypocrisy\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

In 2006 Winfrey called out the author when she learned that his memoir, which she chose for Oprah’s Book Club, was partly fabricated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Carly Tagen-Die<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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James Frey and Oprah Winfrey. Credit :\u00a0Steve Granitz\/WireImage; Stewart Cook\/Getty for Warner Bros.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

James Frey<\/a> is speaking out about his infamous publishing controversy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an\u00a0interview with\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0published on June 8<\/a>, the author looked back on the publication of his 2003 book\u00a0A Million Little Pieces<\/em>. Originally marketed as a memoir, the book detailed the author\u2019s experience with drug and alcohol addiction, as well as his subsequent rehabilitation.\u00a0Oprah Winfrey<\/a>\u00a0chose the memoir for her book club in 2005, and it soon became a bestseller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from People Magazine A Million Little Pieces Author James Frey Opens Up About Oprah Winfrey Controversy: \u2018Brutal Hypocrisy\u2019 In 2006 Winfrey called out the author when she learned that his memoir, which she chose for Oprah’s Book Club, was partly fabricated By\u00a0Carly Tagen-Die James Frey is speaking out about his infamous publishing controversy. In an\u00a0interview with\u00a0The New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13821","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}