{"id":2442,"date":"2010-05-31T07:45:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/05\/james-frey-tonight-shakespeare-and-company-paris-7pm\/"},"modified":"2010-05-31T07:52:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T14:52:44","slug":"james-frey-tonight-shakespeare-and-company-paris-7pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/31\/james-frey-tonight-shakespeare-and-company-paris-7pm\/","title":{"rendered":"James Frey Tonight @ Shakespeare And Company (Paris) – 7pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Monday 31st<\/span>\u00a0May 7:00pm<\/p>\n

<\/a>In his youth, James Frey spent many an afternoon at Shakespeare and Company and tonight we have the pleasure of welcoming him back into the fold. James Frey is the bestselling author of\u00a0A Million Little Pieces<\/em>,My Friend Leonard<\/em>\u00a0and more recently, a novel about LA,\u00a0Bright Shiny Morning<\/em>.\u00a0 \u2018A furiously good storyteller\u2019 \u2013\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

James is a writer not afraid of a little controversy. There was a lot of noise surrounding his brilliant first book,\u00a0A Million Little Pieces,<\/em>\u00a0which spawned a fact\/fiction debate that captured America and the world. He has had highs and lows \u2013 but throughout them all, his writing continued to speak louder than all the brouhaha. James writes exhilarating books and posseses that rare quality \u2013 the ability to tell a truly good story.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Dans sa jeunesse, James Frey a pass\u00e9 bien des apr\u00e8s-midi \u00e0 Shakespeare and Company et c’est avec plaisir que nous l’accueillerons \u00e0 nouveau ce soir. James Frey est l’auteur \u00e0 succ\u00e8s de<\/em>\u00a0A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard\u00a0et, derni\u00e8rement, d’un roman sur Los Angeles,\u00a0<\/em>Bright Shiny Morning. James n’est pas un auteur que la controverse effraie. Il a connu des hauts et des bas mais la qualit\u00e9 de son \u00e9criture a toujours su rester au-dessus de tous les d\u00e9bats. James est l’auteur de romans grisants et il a cette rare qualit\u00e9, le don de savoir raconter une histoire.<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

After battling with alcohol addiction and spending time in rehab, James Frey wrote\u00a0A Million Little Pieces<\/em>\u00a0which was published in 2003 in America and the following year in the UK to critical acclaim.\u00a0The New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>praised the book as \u201cA frenzied, electrifying description of the experience\u201d. He wrote the sequel,\u00a0My Friend Leonard<\/em>\u00a0about life after rehab. His latest novel,\u00a0Bright Shiny Morning<\/em>, is all about Los Angeles, the city of contradictions. Home to both movie stars and down-and-outs, palm-lined beaches and gridlock, shopping sprees and gun sprees.\u00a0Bright Shiny Morning<\/em>\u00a0takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Frey\u2019s trademark cinematic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters, bringing their egos and ideals, hopes and despairs, anxieties and absurdities vividly to life. Some suffer, like the otherworldly wino who tries to save a spoilt teenage runaway. Others gain, like the canny talent agent who turns sexual harassment into blackmailing advantage. Some are loaded, or grounded, and have luck on their side. Others, like the countless actresses-turned-hookers, or schoolboys-turned-gangsters, are doomed.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Praise for James Frey:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018James Frey is probably one of the finest and most important writers to have emerged in recent years\u2019 \u2013 Irvine Welsh,\u00a0Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Totally addictive\u2019 \u2013\u00a0Time Out<\/em><\/p>\n

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Monday 31st\u00a0May 7:00pm In his youth, James Frey spent many an afternoon at Shakespeare and Company and tonight we have the pleasure of welcoming him back into the fold. James Frey is the bestselling author of\u00a0A Million Little Pieces,My Friend Leonard\u00a0and more recently, a novel about LA,\u00a0Bright Shiny Morning.\u00a0 \u2018A furiously good storyteller\u2019 \u2013\u00a0New York […]<\/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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","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=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}