Question

1. Cultural critic Laura Kipnis writes, “If Frey, an aspiring novelist, harnessed himself to the engine of the recovery narrative to get his story into print, his readers compromised themselves too, swallowing his writerly affectations like pills mashed up in applesauce, so eager for a fix of recovery lit that the eye-blinking grandiosities [of the book] barely registered.” Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not? answer 200 words

A Million Little Pieces

In 2003, publisher Doubleday released James Frey’s book A Million Little Pieces, marketing it as a memoir about Frey’s struggles with alcohol and drug addiction. In 2005, the book was selected for Oprah’s Book Club, in part for the inspiring and supposedly true story of Frey’s overcoming addiction. The publicity from The Oprah Winfrey Show sparked strong sales for the book, which topped bestseller lists in the following weeks.

On January 8, 2006, investigative website The Smoking Gun published an exposé describing numerous exaggerations and fabrications in Frey’s account of his life story as written, creating controversy regarding the truthfulness of the book as a “memoir.” When Frey first appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2005, he emphasized his honesty: “If I was going to write a book that was true, and I was going to write a book that was honest, then I was going to have to write about myself in very negative ways.” As he did so, he expanded on falsehoods that appeared in the book.

Frey and his publisher, Nan Talese, were unable to effectively refute The Smoking Gun allegations. When Winfrey invited Frey back on her show, she harangued him for lying, saying that she felt “duped” and that Frey had “betrayed millions of readers.” Talese described Winfrey’s rebuke of Frey as “mean and self-serving,” while critics of Frey saw him as opportunistic.

Frey defended the right of authors and memoirists to draw upon their memories, not only upon documented facts: “I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to have the tension that all great stories require.” Authors and literary critics have echoed this sentiment, noting that memoirs are not necessarily the same genre as biographies or autobiographies. When asked about this controversy, author Joyce Carol Oates stated, “the tradition of personal memoir has always been highly ‘fictionalized’ — colored with an individual's
own ‘emotional truth’ ... This is an ethical issue...with convincing
arguments on both sides. In the end, [Winfrey] had to defend
her own ethical standards of truth on her television program,
which was courageous of her; and [Talese] had to defend her
standards as a longtime revered editor, which was courageous
of her.”

Answer 1

According to me, I do not agree with this statement as we have read the news as well. James Frey, the terrible kid of American letters who was given an open dressing-somewhere near Oprah Winfrey over his first book - in which he go off fiction as journal - is back in the features over his most recent endeavor, an aggregate composition venture that some have blamed for being merciless and Dickensian.

Anywhere the Frey goes, talk is never a long way behind. A Million Little Parts sold 8 million duplicates in 2003 but landed him in a tough situation when it was found to have fabricated bits of it. He has never looked so flustered by the accusations thrown on him until now. There's, overall, no such thing as awful attention as a designer in a packed abstract US market.

Frey really sounds bothered by the attack he's been subjected to because of what the state of spoiler abusses young, obscure writers. "People want to describe me as a scoundrel. I don't like that. I just don't feel excited about being offered a part as a bad kid in this case." The thought for Full Fathom Five rose, he says, from his energy for arrangement with Harry Potter. "I adored the Potter books, the day they turned out, I read each one. I think books are meaningful and I needed to help keep young people understanding them as I did as a child."

Kipnis quotes George Bernard Shaw, "All sets of memoirs are lies." and descends squarely to Frey 's side, reflecting on the fact that the open is merely tricking them into believing all booths and diaries of confession as verbatim. She starts a interesting argument, but gets the weight issues of Oprah distracted instead of calling on the TV to lift and attack James Frey afterwards. Oprah 's response to Frey was the absolute best case of Kipnis' underlying meaning of why she accepts embarrassment in love with individuals, that we need to mess up and be rebuffed furtively, and moreover that we need and need to reject others for their screw-up. Nevertheless, Kipnis seems hesitant to focus completely on such a groundbreaking individual as Oprah, which ultimately weakens the book and its closure.

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