{"id":13845,"date":"2025-06-13T10:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13845"},"modified":"2025-06-17T10:59:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:59:38","slug":"wsj-sizzling-misdeeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/13\/wsj-sizzling-misdeeds\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Sizzling misdeeds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Infamous Author Wrote a Novel About His Town. What Do the Neighbors Think?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Best known for the memoir \u2018A Million Little Pieces\u2019 and the ensuing controversy, James Frey now has a sizzling beach read about the misdeeds of the rich<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ellen Gamerman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The spring meeting of Frey\u2019s book club was held at a friend\u2019s mansion near the New York-Connecticut border.\u00a9\u00a0Ryan Lowry for WSJ. Magazine<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

James Frey\u2019s book group was meeting to discuss the new novel by the notorious author James Frey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though he has written six books, Frey is best known for \u201cA Million Little Pieces,\u201d the 2003 bestseller about his drug-and-alcohol addiction. That title, marketed as a memoir, turned Frey into a pariah when it was revealed he falsified or exaggerated parts of his story. Oprah scolded him on TV. His agent dumped him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now he\u2019s releasing a sizzling gossipfest about the misdeeds of the rich called \u201cNext to Heaven,\u201d which revolves around an elite swingers party in a town based on New Canaan, Conn., the moneyed enclave where the author lives. Against that backdrop, the book can seem like reality disguised as fiction, as opposed to the fiction disguised as reality that led to his literary scandal two decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf I write a book that is published as nonfiction, everybody tears it apart trying to figure out what in it is not true,\u201d the author, 55, said. \u201cIf I write a book that\u2019s fiction, everybody tears it apart trying to figure out what is true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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