{"id":2964,"date":"2011-05-15T23:29:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T06:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/05\/toni-morrison-james-frey-among-oprah%e2%80%99s-final-guests\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T14:05:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T21:05:44","slug":"toni-morrison-james-frey-among-oprah%e2%80%99s-final-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/15\/toni-morrison-james-frey-among-oprah%e2%80%99s-final-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Toni Morrison, James Frey Among Oprah\u2019s Final Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/vintage-anchor.knopfdoubleday.com\/2011\/05\/13\/toni-morrison-james-frey-among-oprahs-final-guests\/\" target=\"_blank\">from Vintage \/ Anchor Books<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Toni Morrison, James Frey Among Oprah\u2019s Final Guests<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307276902\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Toni Morrison, James Frey Among Oprah\u2019s Final Guests\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #dfab0e; text-decoration: none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/images\/dyn\/cover\/?source=9780307276902&amp;height=300&amp;maxwidth=170\" alt=\"Toni Morrison, James Frey Among Oprah\u2019s Final Guests\" style=\"float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-width: 5px; border-color: #f2f2f2; border-style: solid\" \/><\/a>The last two weeks of the \u201cOprah Winfrey Show\u201d will feature appearances by some of the show\u2019s most memorable guests, including authors Toni Morrison and James Frey.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/author\/21332\/toni-morrison?sort=best_13wk_3month\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #4376a5; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">Morrison<\/a>\u00a0will appear on the May 13th show in an episode subtitled, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/showinfo\/The-Greatest-Lessons-on-The-Oprah-Show\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #4376a5; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">The Greatest Lessons on the Oprah Show<\/a>.\u201d Frey will appear on the shows on May 16th and 17th to discuss\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/56429\/a-million-little-pieces-by-james-frey\/9780307276902\/\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #4376a5; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Million Little Pieces<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/showinfo\/James-Frey-After-the-Million-Little-Pieces-Controversy-Part-1\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #4376a5; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">the biggest controversy in Oprah Show history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Toni Morrison was one of the first authors whose works were selected for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/packages\/oprahs-book-club-selections.html\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #4376a5; text-decoration: none\">Oprah\u2019s Book Club<\/a>, with the selection of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/117657\/song-of-solomon-by-toni-morrison\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #4376a5; text-decoration: none\"><em>Song of Solomon<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in 1996. Later selections included\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/117654\/paradise-by-toni-morrison\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #4376a5; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Paradise<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1998),\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/117662\/the-bluest-eye-by-toni-morrison\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #4376a5; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">The Bluest Eye<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2000), and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/117659\/sula-by-toni-morrison\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #4376a5; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sula<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2002).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/56429\/a-million-little-pieces-by-james-frey\/9780307276902\/\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #4376a5; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Million Little Pieces<\/em><\/a>, James Frey\u2019s memoir of addiction, was selected for Oprah\u2019s Book Club in 2005. In January 2006, the Smoking Gun reported that inconsistencies and discrepancies existed in the book. Subsequently, James Frey acknowledged that he had employed a degree of literary license in the writing of the book, including altering and embellishing certain details. Following this revelation, Frey discussed the controversy with Oprah Winfrey live on her show.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/vintage-anchor.knopfdoubleday.com\/2011\/05\/13\/toni-morrison-james-frey-among-oprahs-final-guests\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at KnopfDoubleday.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Vintage \/ Anchor Books Toni Morrison, James Frey Among Oprah\u2019s Final Guests The last two weeks of the \u201cOprah Winfrey Show\u201d will feature appearances by some of the show\u2019s most memorable guests, including authors Toni Morrison and James Frey.\u00a0Morrison\u00a0will appear on the May 13th show in an episode subtitled, \u201cThe Greatest Lessons on 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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","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=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}