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Still more Frey

Remember when Vanity Fair ran a long piece on James Frey earlier this year, just before the release of Frey’s “first” novel Bright Shiny Morning?

Now he would just as soon forget the whole mess. He fears and loathes the media. He has been press shy since his January 2006 appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and doesn’t plan to speak to the press again after this interview.

Well, if you believed that, you may be interested in purchasing one of several bridges we have for sale here at the Quill labs.

And indeed, as The Independent wrote late last month, the once-disgraced author “has popped up in a series of surprisingly sympathetic newspaper, magazine, radio and television interviews.” A recent Canadian example includes this Maclean’s Q&A, in which Frey discusses the venom his new book inevitably faces:

I’m a human being and I feel things. Sometimes comments made about me hurt me, but at the same time there’s nothing I can do about them. You accept them. You accept the good and you accept the bad. It doesn’t mean I’m going to let them affect what I do or how I do it. I have no interest in fighting anybody, and I’m perfectly comfortable with my position as sort of an outsider. I’m not begging to be part of anything. I’m going to write my books and hopefully people read them and hopefully people enjoy them. That’s what matters.

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