{"id":13897,"date":"2025-06-28T17:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T00:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13897"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:58:41","slug":"least-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/28\/least-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Least Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/issues\/2025-6-21\/james-frey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Air Mail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">James Frey<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The infamous author, who is back with a new book, shares his least favorite things\u2014excluding Oprah<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.airmail.news\/8sou3m6jcge8bwkp80j5n5530k96-982e3b8574b8ed6892b9acde62263a1e.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>\u201cGo fuck yourself.\u201d<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>James Frey knows what it is like to have been up and down and over and out. Ever since Oprah Winfrey publicly shamed him for fabricating parts of his 2003 memoir,\u00a0<em>A Million Little Pieces,<\/em>\u00a0he\u2019s adopted a Sinatra-esque \u201cThat\u2019s Life\u201d attitude. He\u2019s rolled with the punches of cancel culture\u2014but 20 years later, he\u2019s punching back. His new novel,\u00a0<em>Next to Heaven,<\/em>\u00a0centers on a swingers\u2019 party and a murder. It\u2019s sexy, funny, and unafraid to voice taboos\u2014much like Frey\u2019s early work. (Except, this time, there\u2019s no need to call in a fact-checker.) To celebrate its release, the author shares his least favorite things. \u2014<em>Carolina de Armas<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/issues\/2025-6-21\/james-frey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Air Mail<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Air Mail James Frey The infamous author, who is back with a new book, shares his least favorite things\u2014excluding Oprah James Frey knows what it is like to have been up and down and over and out. Ever since Oprah Winfrey publicly shamed him for fabricating parts of his 2003 memoir,\u00a0A Million Little Pieces,\u00a0he\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897","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=13897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}