{"id":2449,"date":"2010-06-04T16:17:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T23:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/06\/report-from-shakespeare-and-company\/"},"modified":"2010-06-04T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T23:19:38","slug":"report-from-shakespeare-and-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/04\/report-from-shakespeare-and-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from Shakespeare And Company"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Sion Dayson’s ‘Paris (im)perfect’<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

James Frey, After the\u00a0Fact<\/a><\/h3>\n

Published\u00a0June 4, 2010<\/abbr>\t<\/span>Literary\/Cultural Paris<\/a><\/span>\u00a02\u00a0Comments<\/span><\/a>\t
Tags:\u00a0shakespeare & co<\/a>,\u00a0literary<\/a>,\u00a0paris<\/a>,\u00a0james frey<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Sex or violence?<\/span><\/p>\n

This was the choice presented to us by author James Frey on Monday night at Shakespeare & Co. He would either read a passage of the sultry stuff or the gun stuff \u2013 the decision rested with us.<\/p>\n

This being France, we went for the sex.<\/p>\n

(Though wait! Immediately after, the audience then begged for the violence, too. I guess people always want it all).<\/p>\n

For awhile, fact or fiction was the real question in regards to Frey. If you weren\u2019t hiding under a rock around 2006, you probably remember him as the writer whose 2003 \u201cmemoir\u201d\u00a0A Million Little Pieces<\/em>\u00a0blew up into a big controversy. He was the man who duped Oprah. His memoir, you see, was partly \u201cmade up.\u201d<\/p>\n

I never read the book \u2013 I stayed above the fray (yes, pun intended) \u2013 but I can\u2019t say I wasn\u2019t curious to see the man behind the headlines, all these years later.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a rare opportunity, really. Frey doesn\u2019t do readings in the US anymore. Probably tired of answering the same questions.<\/p>\n

But this is France, and Paris holds a special place in Frey\u2019s heart. He came here as a 22 year-old, inspired by the \u201cAmerican writer in Paris myth,\u201d he said. \u201cTropic of Cancer\u201d by Henry Miller had \u201clit him up,\u201d and he wanted to come here to experience the literary fire himself. It was something of a dream for Frey to return nearly two decades later as a visiting author to the famed Shakespeare & Co.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at Paris (im)perfect<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Sion Dayson’s ‘Paris (im)perfect’   James Frey, After the\u00a0Fact Published\u00a0June 4, 2010 Literary\/Cultural Paris\u00a02\u00a0Comments Tags:\u00a0shakespeare & co,\u00a0literary,\u00a0paris,\u00a0james frey\u00a0 Sex or violence? This was the choice presented to us by author James Frey on Monday night at Shakespeare & Co. He would either read a passage of the sultry stuff or the gun stuff \u2013 […]<\/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-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","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=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}