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anissaannalise Jan. 12th, 2006 06:22 pm)
anissaannalise Jan. 12th, 2006 06:22 pm)It's like a Venezuelan snuff film that just won't end...
James Frey appeared on Larry King Live last night, ostensibly to defend the "essential truth" of his non-non-fiction memoir. I'm not quite sure why anyone is referring to it as a memoir any longer. Surely, it has to have happened to be recollected from memory to be written down as a memoir. At the very least, he has to realize that, otherwise he thinks the imaginary friends are real.
Anyway, he's more interested in the "emotional truth" being paramount with his readers. WTF?! As if traveling down Bullshit Artist Boulevard wasn't enough he merged right onto Pull It Out of Your Ass Drive when he said that because it's a memoir "it's an imperfect animal" and "shouldn't be held to the standard of a perfect non-fiction document or newspaper." I clearly missed that classification in Dewey. Hmm... Perfect Non-Fiction as opposed to say, Imperfect Non-Fiction (which is oft mistaken for Fiction by the illiterati). Again I say: WTF?!
Anywho, Larry managed to get Oprah on the telephone for her take on the recent travails of the ho. She pulled a move that would impress the inner Beltway crowd. Dicey like a seasoned politico, she maintained that she still supports Frey because "the underlying message" resonated with her and the multitudes who've had their lives changed. And here's where it becomes art. She didn't disagree when asked if the work would have been better published as fiction. In a distancing motion that would make Abramoff's friends envious, she said that she's "disappointed by the controversy... because I rely on the publishers to define the category the book falls within." Nice. Just like a pimp to disavow the ho when the ho gets busted.
Frey did confirm that he originally shopped the work as fiction. There was still no denial on his embellishment of criminal records/activity & contents of legal documents (which he had, by the way, sealed, just prior to publication). So it's not like he thought he was putting out a true-to-life tell all. And the best point of irony? Page 107 of the paperback edition reads: There is truth and that is all that matters. The truth.
No, Mr. Frey... all that matters is publication, pimp-fic and best-seller status and possibly street-cred. It's not about what happened, it's about what people would want to have happened. Sex it, hype it and cash the check as fast as you can.
James Frey appeared on Larry King Live last night, ostensibly to defend the "essential truth" of his non-non-fiction memoir. I'm not quite sure why anyone is referring to it as a memoir any longer. Surely, it has to have happened to be recollected from memory to be written down as a memoir. At the very least, he has to realize that, otherwise he thinks the imaginary friends are real.
Anyway, he's more interested in the "emotional truth" being paramount with his readers. WTF?! As if traveling down Bullshit Artist Boulevard wasn't enough he merged right onto Pull It Out of Your Ass Drive when he said that because it's a memoir "it's an imperfect animal" and "shouldn't be held to the standard of a perfect non-fiction document or newspaper." I clearly missed that classification in Dewey. Hmm... Perfect Non-Fiction as opposed to say, Imperfect Non-Fiction (which is oft mistaken for Fiction by the illiterati). Again I say: WTF?!
Anywho, Larry managed to get Oprah on the telephone for her take on the recent travails of the ho. She pulled a move that would impress the inner Beltway crowd. Dicey like a seasoned politico, she maintained that she still supports Frey because "the underlying message" resonated with her and the multitudes who've had their lives changed. And here's where it becomes art. She didn't disagree when asked if the work would have been better published as fiction. In a distancing motion that would make Abramoff's friends envious, she said that she's "disappointed by the controversy... because I rely on the publishers to define the category the book falls within." Nice. Just like a pimp to disavow the ho when the ho gets busted.
Frey did confirm that he originally shopped the work as fiction. There was still no denial on his embellishment of criminal records/activity & contents of legal documents (which he had, by the way, sealed, just prior to publication). So it's not like he thought he was putting out a true-to-life tell all. And the best point of irony? Page 107 of the paperback edition reads: There is truth and that is all that matters. The truth.
No, Mr. Frey... all that matters is publication, pimp-fic and best-seller status and possibly street-cred. It's not about what happened, it's about what people would want to have happened. Sex it, hype it and cash the check as fast as you can.
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