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1 Oct 2007, 2:19 pm
Remember James Frey, the author of the memoir A Million Little Pieces, a purported "real life" memoir about Frey's drug use that Frey later admitted he'd fabricated? [read post]
13 Nov 2010, 2:16 pm by C.E. Petit
Just a short note today on James Frey's apparent inability to learn, especially regarding ethics... and how that affects authors, and particularly authors who have stars in their eyes regarding "new publishing paradigms. [read post]
8 Sep 2006, 10:58 am
The New York Times reports that a settlement has been reached in the consolidated cases by readers who sued Random House and James Frey when they found out his book A Million Little Pieces was not quite a memoir. [read post]
28 Dec 2006, 6:23 am
James Frey meets a million little plaintiffs. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 1:09 pm by Buce
Which inevitably raises the question: does disclosure of Glassco's "fib" (Menand's word) put him in a class with James (A Million Little Pieces) Frey, whose "fib" about his alleged druggy past put him crosswise with his publisher and, perhaps worse, earned an anathema from Oprah. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 7:21 pm by Frank Pasquale
Now James Frey is assembling writers, Andy Warhol factory-style, to try find the next Twilight: This is the essence of the terms being offered by Frey’s company Full Fathom Five: In exchange for delivering a finished book within a set number of months, the writer would receive $250 (some contracts allowed for another $250 upon completion), along with a percentage of all revenue generated by the project, including television, film, and merchandise rights—30… [read post]
26 May 2011, 10:16 pm by Walter Olson
It might eventuate in another deeply flawed book-reader class action, predicts Andrew Trask (earlier on James Frey “Million Little Pieces” suits). [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 6:00 pm by Lawrence Solum
Here is the abstract: This paper examines the class action filed against James Frey for his inaccuracies in A Million Little Pieces. [read post]
8 Sep 2006, 6:26 am
But one of its contributing authors has penned a piece that decries the frivolity of the class action suit filed against Random House over its publication of James Frey's A Million Little Pieces. [read post]
23 Jul 2022, 8:06 pm by Ron Coleman
From Freedom Fest, July 14, 2022 and featuring former Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, James O’Keefe III of Project Veritas, and the YouTuber known as Viva Frei. [read post]
17 May 2010, 7:10 am by Lawrence Solum
Here is the abstract: This paper examines the class action against James Frey, alleging fraud because of his falsehoods in A Million Little Pieces. [read post]
9 Jan 2015, 3:51 pm by Andy Weisbecker
On December 22, 2014, we filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Safeway Inc, in the Superior Court of Santa Cruz on behalf of James Raymond Frey, 87, and the estate of his deceased wife, Shirlee Jean Frey, 81, who died tragically on December 2, 2014 after consuming a Listeria-tainted caramel apple purchased at the Safeway in Felton, California. [read post]
20 May 2007, 10:12 pm
(Thomas Zambito, " Author's $2.3M lie", New York Daily News, May 18; "New York Judge Tentatively Approves Refunds for Buyers of James Frey's Fabricated Memoir", AP/FoxNews.com, May 18). [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 9:35 pm by Walter Olson
As in the earlier (and successful) James Frey episode, lawyers are arguing that consumers should be awarded refunds for their purchases of the flawed memoir. [read post]
27 Jan 2006, 3:05 pm
Whilst not strictly a First Amendment issue, the controversy raging over Oprah Winfrey's surprising defense of author James Frey, by calling in to CNN's cartoonish Larry King, culminated in a public apology yesterday by Winfrey.Winfrey's own First Amedment history relating to the beef industry, as well as the greater debate as to what distinguishes fact from fiction, opinion from reporting and other such "thin lines" makes the debate relevant here.For those… [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 3:59 pm by Bill Marler
., in the Superior Court of Santa Cruz on behalf of James Raymond Frey, 87, and the estate of his deceased wife, Shirlee Jean Frey, 81, who died tragically on December 2, 2014 after consuming a Listeria-tainted caramel apple purchased at the Safeway in Felton, California. [read post]
1 Jan 2015, 12:07 pm by Bill Marler
., in the Superior Court of Santa Cruz on behalf of James Raymond Frey, 87, and the estate of his deceased wife, Shirlee Jean Frey, 81, who died tragically on December 2, 2014 after consuming a Listeria-tainted caramel apple purchased at the Safeway in Felton, California. [read post]
20 Mar 2017, 5:16 pm by Tom Smith
Frey and Osborne put the risk to lawyers at under four percent, and project that paralegals are in much more danger. [read post]
20 May 2007, 6:48 am
A judge gave preliminary approval to the settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought against Random House and author James Frey. [read post]