{"id":1631,"date":"2009-05-28T00:57:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T07:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/05\/james-frey-reading-tonight-book-court-in-brooklyn-7pm\/"},"modified":"2009-05-28T15:41:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T22:41:02","slug":"james-frey-reading-tonight-book-court-in-brooklyn-7pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/28\/james-frey-reading-tonight-book-court-in-brooklyn-7pm\/","title":{"rendered":"James Frey Reading Tonight @ Book Court in Brooklyn 7pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THURSDAY, MAY 28 &#8211; 7PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\"><strong>JAMES FREY &#8211; BRIGHT SHINY MORNING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bookcourt.org\/bookcourtwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/37058705.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"193\" width=\"128\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/>Dozens of characters pass across the reader\u2019s sight lines\u2014some never to be seen again\u2014but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA\u2019s lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives: a bright, ambitious young Mexican-American woman who allows her future to be undone by a moment of searing humiliation; a supremely narcissistic action-movie star whose passion for the unattainable object of his affection nearly destroys him; a couple, both nineteen years old, who flee their suffocating hometown and struggle to survive on the fringes of the great city; and an aging Venice Beach alcoholic whose life is turned upside down when a meth-addled teenage girl shows up half-dead outside the restroom he calls home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">Throughout this strikingly powerful novel there is the relentless drumbeat of the millions of other stories that, taken as a whole, describe a city, a culture, and an age. A dazzling tour de force, Bright Shiny Morning illuminates the joys, horrors, and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">[\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcourt.org\/?cat=1\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to visit the Book Court website<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THURSDAY, MAY 28 &#8211; 7PM JAMES FREY &#8211; BRIGHT SHINY MORNING &nbsp; Dozens of characters pass across the reader\u2019s sight lines\u2014some never to be seen again\u2014but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA\u2019s lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives: a bright, ambitious young Mexican-American woman who allows her future to [&hellip;]<\/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-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}