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James Frey is the author of A Million Little Pieces, a harrowing memoir of his recovery from a life of addiction and crime.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)

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James Frey is the author of A Million Little Pieces, a harrowing memoir of his recovery from a life of addiction and crime. On the strength of an endorsement by Oprah Winfrey, it sold twice as many copies as pieces. But now, thanks to the website The Smoking Gun, all the world (that is, literary New York) knows that Mr. Frey made much of it, and all the good stuff, up. E.g., Frey says he spent three months in jail, when he actually spent a few hours in a police station, ...

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