A popular investigative website and author James Frey are in a dust-up over
the authenticity of Frey's best-selling memoir, A Million Little Pieces.
TheSmokingGun.com says in a lengthy article that a six-week examination of
police and court records, as well as interviews with law enforcement personnel,
show that Frey fabricated or embellished details of his law-breaking days.
Now, I'd like to bash the author of the last Oprah book as much as the next person, but are we really concerned about embellishments in Frey's memoir? I suppose I don't expect everything in every memoir to be fact. Just ask Pam Houston. Maybe, though, this tells Frey, and all the others cashing in on the memoir craze, that they'd be better suited to write fiction.
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