Although not strictly a World Affairs subject, let’s get the distasteful matter of James Frey over with. To go to the original source of the truth about A Million Little Pieces:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0104061jamesfrey1.html

Now: Below is the link to the final upshot. As you’ll see if your duodenal area can take reading this shit (I’m talking queasy guts here), Frey STILL will not own up. He only admits to "taking some liberties" or whatever (while Random House agrees to cough up millions in refunds for publishing the lying slug’s crock of shit), something like that. I mean I can’t even bring myself to look again to get the quote right.

Again: You have the shitball motherfucker’s address, shoot it my way and I’ll send him some rum and painkillers…

Here’s the upshot.
(requires registering with the NYTimes online, which is free).

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