{"id":2925,"date":"2011-04-19T23:59:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T06:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/04\/so-this-is-how-i-write-a-book\/"},"modified":"2012-03-21T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T21:13:08","slug":"so-this-is-how-i-write-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/19\/so-this-is-how-i-write-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;So this&#8230; is how I write a book.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/apr\/19\/james-frey-final-testament-bible\" target=\"_blank\">from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: #d1008b; border-bottom-color: #d1008b; border-left-color: #d1008b; font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 2.166em; line-height: 1.154; width: 460px; border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px\">James Frey: &#8216;I always wanted to be the outlaw&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #666666\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">The controversial novelist talks about truth, fiction and his new book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #666666\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span>by\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/deccaaitkenhead\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"contributor\">Decca Aitkenhead<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; display: block; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px\" id=\"main-content-picture\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2011\/4\/18\/1303139896391\/James-Frey-007.jpg\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" alt=\"James Frey\" height=\"276\" width=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px\" class=\"caption\">James Frey: &#8216;You talk about facts. I talk about truth.&#8217; Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/james-frey\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on James Frey\">James Frey<\/a>\u00a0sprawls on his back along the couch, knees bent with one tucked over the other, his laptop propped between midriff and thighs. He hits a key, and the computer bursts into noisy punk music \u2013 the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zmHhB9zV_rQ\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" title=\"Sex Pistols Pretty Vacant\">Sex Pistols&#8217; Pretty Vacant<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 so loud that I can hardly hear him when he nods towards the TV and adds, &#8220;Oh, and that would normally be on as well.&#8221; Typing with two fingers, he mouths each sentence aloud before committing it to the page, looking for all the world like a semi-literate teen with attention deficit issues, posting idle nonsense on Facebook. &#8220;So this,&#8221; he says, &#8220;is how I\u00a0write a book.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/apr\/19\/james-frey-final-testament-bible\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian James Frey: &#8216;I always wanted to be the outlaw&#8217; The controversial novelist talks about truth, fiction and his new book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by\u00a0Decca Aitkenhead James Frey: &#8216;You talk about facts. I talk about truth.&#8217; Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian James Frey\u00a0sprawls on his back along the [&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":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","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=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}