{"id":2630,"date":"2010-10-17T17:29:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T00:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/10\/james-frey-vs-oprah-the-art-of-literary-revenge\/"},"modified":"2010-10-18T17:47:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T00:47:39","slug":"james-frey-vs-oprah-the-art-of-literary-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/17\/james-frey-vs-oprah-the-art-of-literary-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"James Frey vs Oprah: The Art of Literary Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Independent UK<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Poison pens: The art of\u00a0literary\u00a0revenge<\/h1>\n

Jilly Cooper has named a goat in her latest novel after a critic who wrote a biting review. She got away lightly…<\/p>\n

By Andy McSmith<\/span><\/p>\n

James Frey vs Oprah<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"james-frey-vsoprah.jpg\"There is no better way to boost sales in the US book market than being featured on The\u00a0Oprah\u00a0Winfrey\u00a0Show, but for James Frey, author of a memoir called A Million Little Pieces, about his recovery from drug addiction, the experience turned nasty after it was revealed that a good part of his book was made up. He was called back on to the show when a sometimes tearful Winfrey demanded to know why “he felt the need to lie”.<\/p>\n

Three years later, in 2009, a paperback edition of Frey’s novel Bright Shiny Morning, appeared, with a new section entitled “Chat Show Host” that was not in the original hardback. It described how the protagonist was hauled on to a chat show to be called a liar, and how he later recorded a telephone conversation with the chat show host in which she said that she had written a book that had never been published. When asked if he really had a recording of a phone conversation with Winfrey, Frey replied: “The book is fiction. Interpret it however you want.”<\/p>\n

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