James Frey's tale of addiction & rehab; turns out it wasn't really nonfiction
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A Million Little Pieces - Wikipedia  A Million Little Pieces is a book by James Frey, originally sold as a memoir and later marketed ... We find out that James is 23 years old, and has been an alcoholic for ten years, and a ... Frey's subsequent book My Friend Leonard), and a woman drug addict with whom he falls ... 400 pages of hanging around a rehab clinic.
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James Frey's A Million Little Pieces fiction? - Kottke  Jan 8, 2006 ... A James Frey message board is already buzzing about the piece. ..... If Frey wasn't the addict that he claimed to be, the book certainly loses some ... Non-fiction memoir, is, by the very writing of it, transformed into a type of fiction. .... As it is, he may turn out to be a fraud, and his reckless stab at fame and...
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James Frey's Morning After | Vanity Fair  Was James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" an ex-junkie's con job, part of a proud ... He was tough enough to kick a five-year drug-and-alcohol addiction. ... Oprah, the very arbiter of correct human behavior, destroyed him in public, and the ..... James Frey's bony, lying, nonfiction butt out of the kingdom of Oprah, offered Dowd...
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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey  Reviews, Discussion ...  I'm 16 and don't struggle with any sort of addiction, will this book do me much good or ... is very broken, that the story is pretty fucked up, but it's also really good. ...... Not that I wasn't curious; I've got a definite weakness for angst and drugs and ..... I deliberately read this memoir of non-fiction fiction to explore the relationship...
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A Million Little Lies | The Smoking Gun  Jan 4, 2006 ... Exposing James Frey's Fiction Addiction ..... departure," Winfrey announced that "A Million Little Pieces," author James Frey's nonfiction memoir...
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An Interview with Alan Cheuse - Weber Studies  ... turnpike through speech writer, a journalist for the 'Bible' of the garment industry, high ... They had much better relations with their food than they did with each other. ... The Grandmothers' Club is what you would call "myth-charged" fiction. .... I think in images, which shape themselves into a fluid scene, very much as the...
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Fortunato in The Cask of Amontillado - Shmoop  It's much simpler to relate to the victim than to the victimizer. ... Part of this is because Montresor is telling us the story, and he doesn't give us much information...
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Iustin_Sfariac_Literatura_americana - Scribd  She has also, however, discovered her moral sense, partially under the ..... of moral problems. between Howells's early remark that Lapham "could not rise" (50) to ...... remarks are not literature (Stein 270) and wisely advised him to cut the .... In the meantime. macho attitude towards suffering. and interviews. author of the...
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Erowid Psychoactive Vaults : "The Doors of Perception" by Aldous ...  True, they stopped short at a point well this side of idolatry; but all concurred in assigning to mescalin a position among drugs of unique distinction. Administered...
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Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir by Grace Slick ...  Not a bad autobiography on the legendary Jefferson Airplane singer. ... She is very candid about her ongoing substance abuse problems and the problems it lead her into over the years. ... And anyone who romanticizes sex, drugs and rock and roll is sure to not be .... Again, no surprises, but nice to hear it in her own words.
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Media View Kitty Kelley's Bush Book With Caution (washingtonpost ...  Wednesday, September 8, 2004; Page C01 ... with lurid allegations by a celebrity biographer whose controversial reputation has only boosted her sales. ... starting Monday -- "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty" is certain to ... We erred on the side of caution because we knew how hard she was going to be hit.".
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Truth or Dare: Madonna's big lie | Music Review | Chicago Reader  Jun 20, 1991 ... Far from being a first-of-its-kind backstage look at the rock-star psyche, ... an actual documentary ("The Making of Truth or Dare") that laid bare the manipulations. ... taking off her makeup, going to the bathroom, or brushing her teeth. ... on the star from anywhere besides the very front and sides of the stage.
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Cinderella Story: My Life in Golf by Bill Murray  Reviews ...  Original Title .... Much of his movie, Caddyshack, was based on his (hilariously embroidered) ... as it regularly gets hard to keep track of due to his habit of flitting around. ... Love the actor. ... this book did provide some insight into one of pop culture's most enigmatic figures. ... book. Although I love Bill Murray it's a hard read.
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Some sort of epic grandeur  Yet this apocryphal piece of lore has acquired the force of literary history. ..... He said he'd like to cover the war from Europe after his novel was completed ...... The reviews of Flappers and Philosophers were mixed, with some critics ...... Scribners published six more Lardner volumes and a collected edition during his lifetime.
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Letters 205 - Orange Papers  Apr 3, 2014 ... I entered AA in the early 90's, through both Al-Anon and ACA. .... It is tragic that Alcoholics Anonymous does not want to give any actual ... The Big Book, 3rd & 4th editions, William G. Wilson, Working With ... Anyway, I follow a blog called "College Misery"; it's an anonymous ..... Enough with the alliterations.
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TV special features murder, mayhem, booze in Prohibition-era ...  Sep 29, 2011 ... Swinton's film, titled "William Kennedy's Prohibition Story," is a ... 'Prohibition Story' features famed gangster, murder, mayhem, booze and William Kennedy .... in a historical re-enactment of Jack "Legs" Diamond for an upcoming ... more .... of the film prior to a reading by Kennedy of his just-published novel,...
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Junkie (novel) - Wikipedia  Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict is a novel by American beat generation writer William S. Burroughs, published initially under the pseudonym William Lee in 1953. His first published work, it is semi-autobiographical and focuses on ... See Junk (novel) for the book of similar title by Melvin Burgess.
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Brave New World Allusions - Shmoop  ... to him to be "pleasant vices": easy sex, drugs, and a complete lack of suffering. ... from the Shakespeare is: "It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,...
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The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel - The New York Times  n Cold Blood" is remarkable for its objectivity--nowhere, despite his involvement, ... he discusses the new literary art form which he calls the nonfiction novel. ... Not that I'd never written nonfiction before--I kept journals, and had published a small ..... He didn't like it because he said the crime wasn't committed in cold blood.
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Movie Review - - Narcotics Addict; 'Man With Golden Arm' Opens at ...  ... question about showing "The Man With the Golden Arm," the new film about drug addiction ... and directed and which has Frank Sinatra as its star, is nothing more than a long, torturous picture of one man's battle to beat a craving for dope.
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Outside In by Courtney Thorne-Smith  Reviews, Discussion ...  Hollywood Girls Club by Maggie Marr Always Dangerous by Dee J. Adams Living ... for one book in particular for a book club we were thinking of joining (didn't find it, so didn't ... and funny, so I thought there was a chance she'd make a good writer. ... be Thorne-Smith's thinly veiled account of life on the Melrose Place or Ally...