{"id":13891,"date":"2025-06-25T17:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13891"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:47:05","slug":"time-sensitive-james-frey-and-other-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/25\/time-sensitive-james-frey-and-other-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Sensitive James Frey (and other interviews)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Time Sensitive with Spencer Bailey<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Frey on Designing Your Life to Bring Joy<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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MP3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2003, when the author James Frey published his first book, A Million Little Pieces\u2014<\/em>a gut-punch account of his experience with addiction and rehab\u2014nobody could have expected what would come next. Thanks to an Oprah Book Club endorsement, A Million Little Pieces <\/em>was instantly catapulted to bestseller status, but soon blew up in scandal after Frey admitted to having falsified certain portions of the book, which had been marketed as a memoir. The drama that ensued sparked a media controversy\u2014one that now, around 20 years later, feels petty and misplaced, especially in the context of today\u2019s cancel-culture climate. More than 10 million copies of A Million Little Pieces <\/em>have sold since, and Frey is still at it, writing, publishing, and pushing the boundaries of his art. His latest novel, Next to Heaven<\/em>, is a rollicking, raunchy, absurd-yet-not satire about money, murder, and the all-too-human desires for power, pleasure, and greed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the episode\u2014our Season 11 finale, in which Frey sat lotus for the entire duration\u2014he reflects on the A Million Little Pieces <\/em>saga; his long-term study of Taoism; writing as a gateway to vulnerability; and why love, for him, is the greatest drug there is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special thanks to our Season 11 presenting sponsor, <\/em>Van Cleef & Arpels<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to listen at Time Sensitve<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OTHER INTERVIEWS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC Front with Tom Sutcliffe<\/a>
Totally Booked With Zibby<\/a>
Writer’s Ink from BookTrib<\/a>
Moms Don\u2019t Have Time to Read Books<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Time Sensitive with Spencer Bailey James Frey on Designing Your Life to Bring Joy MP3 In 2003, when the author James Frey published his first book, A Million Little Pieces\u2014a gut-punch account of his experience with addiction and rehab\u2014nobody could have expected what would come next. Thanks to an Oprah Book Club endorsement, A Million Little […]<\/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-13891","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\/13891","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=13891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}