{"id":415,"date":"2008-05-12T20:27:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T03:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/415\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T22:43:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T05:43:41","slug":"415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/12\/415\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Maslin Channels James Frey"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Observer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Janet Maslin Channels James Frey In Rave Review Of\u00a0Bright Shiny Morning<\/em><\/h1>\n

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BY<\/span>\u00a0LEON NEYFAKH<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0MAY 12, 2008<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Janet<\/a>Janet Maslin loved\u00a0Bright Shiny Morning<\/em>. The teaser text on the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>books portal<\/a>\u00a0is “James Frey stepped up to the plate and hit one out of the park with his new book.” Ms. Maslin’s\u00a0review<\/a>, published today, is not only an unequivocal rave, but a tribute to Mr. Frey’s choppy trademark style: “His publisher called it a dazzling tour de force. (Look, somebody had to, if only to create a comeback drama.) But that wasn\u2019t so far off the mark…. even the stray facts had their artistry…. Even the one-sentence page had its use here.”<\/p>\n

It’s a funny, college-y little gimmick, reminiscent of the time Michiko Kakutani wrote about Benjamin Kunkel’s\u00a0Indecision<\/em>in the voice of\u00a0Holden Caulfield<\/a>. Mr. Frey’s editor at HarperCollins, Tim Duggan, called the Maslin review “pretty extraordinary.”<\/p>\n

“That was\u00a0huge for James,” Mr. Duggan wrote in an e-mail, “and it\u00a0was certainly hard-earned and well-deserved.”<\/p>\n

[ click to read article at the NY Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the New York Observer Janet Maslin Channels James Frey In Rave Review Of\u00a0Bright Shiny Morning \u00a0 BY\u00a0LEON NEYFAKH\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0MAY 12, 2008\u00a0 Janet Maslin loved\u00a0Bright Shiny Morning. The teaser text on the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0books portal\u00a0is “James Frey stepped up to the plate and hit one out of the park with his new book.” Ms. Maslin’s\u00a0review, published […]<\/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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}