{"id":453,"date":"2008-05-19T23:58:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T06:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/james-frey-pisses-off-oprah-and-lives-to-write-again\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T21:58:22","slug":"james-frey-pisses-off-oprah-and-lives-to-write-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/19\/james-frey-pisses-off-oprah-and-lives-to-write-again\/","title":{"rendered":"James Frey Pisses Off Oprah And Lives to Write Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

from BusinessPundit.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

James Frey Pisses Off Oprah And Lives to Write\u00a0Again<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\"Oprah<\/p>\n

James Frey has a new book out.\u00a0\u00a0Bright Shiny Morning<\/a>. After the controversy with his \u2018memoir\u2019, A Million Little Pieces, Frey decided to write another book – a novel, this time. His last book should have been called a novel too. So what? It\u2019s a good book isn\u2019t it? And more important from a business perspective, it sold lots of copies, right? So who cares what you call it?<\/p>\n

That said, Frey could have avoided all the bad press and basked in the glory of a brilliant manuscript born out of his experience but exaggerated for literary effect – you know a novel.<\/p>\n

Modern memoir is filled with all kinds of content that may or may not be 100% accurate, depending on who you ask. It\u2019s the nature of the genre. Surely Oprah was aware of that as she read through Frey\u2019s unconventional text.<\/p>\n

So why the anger? Maybe because\u00a0Frey lied to Oprah\u2019s face<\/a>. He misrepresented himself. The book was his to write as he wished, but to sit across from the most powerful woman in\u00a0publishing<\/a>\u00a0and fail to mention that some of the specific passages the two of you were discussing didn\u2019t actually happen, not exactly how you wrote about them – that was a bad choice.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019ll never know just whose choice that was. Was it Frey\u2019s? The producer who wanted to deliver the edgiest guest? The publishers who wanted to give this incredible tale more credibility? Or a cluster of all these conspiring to create infamy. Literature does not occur in a vacuum. There is a huge marketing\u00a0monster<\/a>\u00a0to feed.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter whose idea it was because Frey complied. He went along with it and faced the consequences. And then he sat back down and wrote again. Newsflash: writers make things up. And often, it\u2019s good for business.<\/p>\n

So what do you think, will Oprah give him another chance?<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>[ click to read article at Business Pundit<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from BusinessPundit.com James Frey Pisses Off Oprah And Lives to Write\u00a0Again \u00a0 James Frey has a new book out.\u00a0\u00a0Bright Shiny Morning. After the controversy with his \u2018memoir\u2019, A Million Little Pieces, Frey decided to write another book – a novel, this time. His last book should have been called a novel too. So what? It\u2019s […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","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=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}