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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
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We're back with Larry. Larry's explaining that you can't after all get a refund from Random House. Now here's James: "It was turned down by a number of publishers as a novel... We talked about what to publish it as and they thought the best thing was to publish it as a memoir... Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Kerouac, Bukowski... the genre of memoir didn't exist when they were publishing... [HUH???] Yeah, I mean, it has blown my mind... a very small part of the book has been disputed... I mean, I don't discuss being in a jail cell in this book. In this book - 420 of the 432 pages of it take place in a treatment facility... I mean, we talk a little about being in a jail cell...I mean certainly I have a long drug and alcohol history... my memory is very subjective...I mean again we're dealing with a very subjective memory..." Now they go to an interview with the editor of Smoking Gun: "The account of the melee with the police is about two percent true. ... No crack, no melee..." ******************************************* UPDATE: Mary Karr glosses my “HUH???” In an interview last week, Larry King asked Mr. Frey why he shopped "A Million Little Pieces" around as a novel, but published it as a memoir. Instead of answering directly, Mr. Frey asserted that his book was in the American literary tradition of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Bukowski and Kerouac. |