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A million little pieces book scandal5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() He peddled Pieces to publishers as a novel, and, when that didn’t work, he was content to sell it as memoir in the hopes of capitalizing on the allure of confessional revelation. Frey’s manuscript entered the market as a document whose fate rode more on its packaging than on the artistic merits of its prose, perception, or plot. ![]() Long before his book was exposed as fraudulent, the James Frey phenomenon was itself Display A of what has become a deep-seated conviction of our therapeutic culture: Not only is the line between what is factually true and what is purveyed as “authentic” blurry indeed, but the inspirational power of a work of imagination or memory is the most relevant currency by which to judge its value. ![]()
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