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James Frey

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2012

    Rightbloggers Continue Slow Progress Through Dreams from My Father, Are Up to Part about "Composites"

    Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama came out in 1995 and has sold over a million copies, but to rightbloggers it is a constantly fresh source of discovery. For years, some of them have insisted that Obama didn't really write it. A few weeks back, they made much of the fact that a passage from it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Michelle Matson Wins, Sucklord Rules: Your Cheat Sheet to Bravo's Work of Art 2, Episode One

    Actual poll currently running on the Bravo site There is a Bravo show called Work of Art: The Search for the Next Great Artist. As we've told you before, it's a reality-TV competition ostensibly about searching every gallery nook and gutter grate for America's Next Great Artist--not a Very Good Art ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    Huffington Post Hires Handful, Ditches AOL-ers; NPR Videos 'Inappropriately Edited'

    ​Since becoming a pair with his company's $315 million purchase of The Huffington Post, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and HuffPo founder Arianna Huffington have overseen the cutting of hundreds of content providers on the parent company's side, with Armstrong presiding over the laying off of over 2,00 ... More >>

  • Film

    February 16, 2011

    Blatantly Wooing a Million Little Demographics in I Am Number Four

    ​Since becoming a pair with his company's $315 million purchase of The Huffington Post, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and HuffPo founder Arianna Huffington have overseen the cutting of hundreds of content providers on the parent company's side, with Armstrong presiding over the laying off of over 2,00 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2011

    Defending the "Lost Art of Shutting Up"

    The original memoirist, St. Augustine. ​Sometimes, the most boring people are the most effusive. The person who traps you on the other side of their monologue at a party; the person shouting into their cellphone on the bus. The constant tweeter. The teenager with 5,000 Facebook photos of her a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Tribeca Might Get Its Own A-List "Halfway House"

    NYO / Google Maps​The Real Deal says that Hazelden, the renowned, Minnesoate-based addiction clinic, is eyeing a $10 million spot in a Tribeca condominium on West Broadway. Finally, New York's celebrity alkies and drug addicts can get clean in the kind of luxury their fame affords!

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    George W. Bush vs. YouTube and Oprah

    ​Two weeks after releasing a promotional video on Youtube for his upcoming autobiography, Decision Points, George W. Bush has spoken out against the esteemed website. According to WBEZ radio, the former president explained to the crowd of representatives from the Commercial Financial Association t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Malcolm Gladwell Officially Loses Battle with Twitter

    ​Let us all take a moment in honor of irony, that cute little concept that makes awkward things so funny, like when Outliers author Malcolm Gladwell takes a giant crap on Twitter in his recent New Yorker interview and blog post, and shortly thereafter, has his working methodology outed by Jo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Six Ways Lindsay Lohan Might Spend Her Time in Jail

    ​If only the public humiliation had ended with that Fire Crotch moniker, dear LiLo's troubles would've been so yesteryear. But now that the synthetically swollen-lipped Mean Girl is being sentenced to 90 days in the slammer for probation violation, we're actually chortling like the Pillsbury D ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 3, 2009

    Kerry Washington: No Slouch in Mamet's Race

    Plus dancing stars, live mullets, and midlife lesbians.

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Interview: Mike Doughty on The Hell That Was Soul Coughing, The Benefits of Psychedelics, and Fictionally Screwing a Republican

    "I get more and more afraid that a Soul Coughing reunion is going to be forced upon me at knifepoint. I don't need money that bad. I swear to God." Mike Doughty's got some staying power. The singer-songwriter first hit the radar with Soul Coughing, that mid-'90s indie-band-with-stand-up-bass resp ... More >>

  • News

    December 31, 2008

    Letters 12.31.08

    "I get more and more afraid that a Soul Coughing reunion is going to be forced upon me at knifepoint. I don't need money that bad. I swear to God." Mike Doughty's got some staying power. The singer-songwriter first hit the radar with Soul Coughing, that mid-'90s indie-band-with-stand-up-bass resp ... More >>

  • Art

    December 10, 2008

    Female Trouble: Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman

    Two veteran artists offer two very different visions of women

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    Bones' Beat: Richard Prince's Canal Zone at Gagosian

    Two veteran artists offer two very different visions of women

  • News

    March 18, 2008

    Boy Soldier of Fortune

    A celebrated memoir threatens to blow into a million little pieces

  • Books

    April 10, 2007

    The Stall of Fame

    In his gonzo media memoir, Glasgow Phillips watches himself turn into an asshole

  • Film

    March 27, 2007

    BookScam

    In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

  • Columns

    February 13, 2007

    NY Mirror

    In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

  • Screens

    August 29, 2006

    Cubicle Salvation: Casual Game Sites

    In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

  • Screens

    August 22, 2006

    A Hyper-Real Football Experience

    In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

  • Screens

    August 8, 2006

    The Mother of All Zombie Adventures

    In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

  • Screens

    July 25, 2006

    When Lamps and Chairs Attack

    In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

  • Film

    July 25, 2006

    'The Night Listener'

    In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

  • Columns

    June 13, 2006

    NY Mirror

    In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

  • News

    February 28, 2006

    Letters

    In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

  • Columns

    February 14, 2006

    Horoscope

    In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

  • Screens

    February 7, 2006

    If Fritz Lang Abused Red Bull and Steroids

    In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

  • Columns

    January 31, 2006

    NY Mirror

    In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

  • Books

    January 31, 2006

    The Space Race

    It's a small world after all: Mike Davis's crowded look at global urban catastrophe

  • Screens

    January 31, 2006

    Cool Enough for James Frey and Nan Talese

    It's a small world after all: Mike Davis's crowded look at global urban catastrophe

  • News

    January 24, 2006

    Oprah: Defer to the Web on Frey

    How Smoking Gun is positioned to give up the real nut.

  • Specials

    January 10, 2006

    Letters

    How Smoking Gun is positioned to give up the real nut.

  • News

    January 3, 2006

    Flashback: Frey's Incredible Suffering Not So Credible

    How Smoking Gun is positioned to give up the real nut.

  • Books

    April 15, 2003

    The Crack-Up

    Everything Is Intoxicated

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