{"id":2609,"date":"2010-09-30T13:59:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T20:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/09\/forbes-the-james-frey-redemption-train\/"},"modified":"2010-10-07T14:07:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T21:07:01","slug":"forbes-the-james-frey-redemption-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/30\/forbes-the-james-frey-redemption-train\/","title":{"rendered":"FORBES: The James Frey Redemption Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/dorothypomerantz\/2010\/09\/29\/the-james-frey-redemption-train-rolls-on-with-i-am-number-four\/\" target=\"_blank\">from Forbes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>The James Frey Redemption Train Rolls On With &#8220;I Am Number Four&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-images.forbes.com\/dorothypomerantz\/files\/2010\/09\/208852.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-553\" title=\"20885\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" style=\"border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" align=\"right\" \/>Writer James Frey suffered one of the most humiliating smack downs of all time when it turned out parts of his hit memoir,\u00a0<em>A Million Little Pieces<\/em>, were fabricated.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/oprah-winfrey\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #0f2d5f\">Oprah<\/a>\u00a0had chosen the book as one of her book club selections and the writer had to have his wrists slapped by the daytime doyenne on her TV show in from of millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>Few would be able to make a comeback after that kind of punishment (not to mention the fact that he had lost the trust of thousands of readers).<\/p>\n<p>But Frey has slowly been returning to the literary limelight. In 2008 he published the novel<em>\u00a0Bright Shiny Morning<\/em>\u00a0which landed on the New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE2DE1639F932A35755C0A96E9C8B63\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #0f2d5f\">bestseller list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now he\u2019s making inroads in Hollywood. Frey co-wrote the young adult novel<em>\u00a0I Am Number Four\u00a0<\/em>which has been turned into a movie by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/steven-spielberg\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #0f2d5f\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Spielberg\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0DreamWorks. A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/movie\/1810167467\/video\/22181025\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #0f2d5f\">new trailer\u00a0<\/a>for the film is currently making the rounds on the Internet. (Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/movie\/1810167467\/video\/22181025\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #0f2d5f\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to see the trailer.)<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/dorothypomerantz\/2010\/09\/29\/the-james-frey-redemption-train-rolls-on-with-i-am-number-four\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Forbes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Forbes The James Frey Redemption Train Rolls On With &#8220;I Am Number Four&#8221; Writer James Frey suffered one of the most humiliating smack downs of all time when it turned out parts of his hit memoir,\u00a0A Million Little Pieces, were fabricated.Oprah\u00a0had chosen the book as one of her book club selections and the writer [&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":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","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=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}