{"id":462,"date":"2008-05-21T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T19:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/bright-shiny-softballs\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T12:41:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T19:41:14","slug":"bright-shiny-softballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/21\/bright-shiny-softballs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Shiny Softballs"},"content":{"rendered":"

from MediaBistro’s fishbowlLA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

LAT Launches Some Bright, Shiny Softballs at James Frey<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"fishbowlLA\"<\/a><\/p>\n

James Frey<\/strong>\u00a0has already received a public caning. So (unless we get some comped ring-side seats) we don’t need to see another one. But still, the LAT piece on the front page acts as if “Pieces” was\u00a0The Blair Witch Project<\/em>\u00a0and more of a hoax than a fabrication.<\/p>\n

Is it because his new book is celebrating LA in literature and since\u00a0Charles Bukowski<\/strong>\u00a0isn’t around anymore we’ve been deprived of that?
\nFrom\u00a0LAT<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I’m definitely more humble, I’m definitely more contained, I’m definitely living a quieter life,” Frey said, popping one of many pieces of nicotine gum. “I’m just really grateful to have a book coming out. It’s similar to ‘A Million Little Pieces’ — I was just so excited to have a book coming out. It’s awesome. I write about L.A. as the city of dreams, and this is another dream . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Posted by Tina |\u00a007:20 AM<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Lit 101<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span>[ click to read blurb at MediaBistro.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from MediaBistro’s fishbowlLA LAT Launches Some Bright, Shiny Softballs at James Frey James Frey\u00a0has already received a public caning. So (unless we get some comped ring-side seats) we don’t need to see another one. But still, the LAT piece on the front page acts as if “Pieces” was\u00a0The Blair Witch Project\u00a0and more of a hoax […]<\/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":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}