05.14.08 5:00 AM CDT
• Books
• Playboy Staff
Tim Lowery of Playboy.com checks out the new offering from James Frey:
No matter what he does, James Frey will always be remembered as that guy who lied, that guy who really duped Oprah.
And Oprah and her legion of best-selling-maker fans probably won’t ever pick up another one of his books after that A Million Little Pieces debacle. Whatever.
Janet Maslin of the New York Times is ready to forgive and forget. "[Fitzgerald] says there are no second acts in American lives. He turns out to be wrong," Maslin writes in her glowing (and damn entertaining) review of Bright Shiny Morning, Frey's novel that hit stores yesterday. Others, meanwhile, aren’t so flattering.
Watch the man himself make his case after the jump...
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