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Crushing a butter-Frey

In Other Media has done a good job of not posting about James Frey in recent weeks, but this one was too good to pass up. Author Peter Carey, who has a well-documented interest in literary hoaxes and a new novel coming out, weighed in on the whole mess in a recent interview in The Bookseller that Gawker linked to on Friday. Says Carey: “It’s trite to say it, but the U.S. is a country run by liars going to war on a fantasy, so it’s interesting to see people getting self-righteous about James Frey. And by the way, if you’re going to publish a memoir by an addict in rehab, everyone knows that one of the corollaries of addiction is lying. So I don’t see why everyone gets into such a fucking uproar because an addict is a liar! Oprah acted like a total bully: talk about about crushing a butterfly on a wheel — or a cockroach on a wheel — because that’s what she did on television to this little creep.”

Related links:
Click here for the Gawker item
Click here for the Carey interview in The Bookseller

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