Past Imperfect
January 13, 2006
Several days ago, it was revealed that James Frey's booze-and-drug-fueled memoir A Million Little Pieces was not, strictly speaking, based on truth. Frey took to the airwaves to defend his bestseller, and a frenzied press debated what, exactly, readers should expect from a memoir. Brooke discusses the uproar with Andrew Goldberg, managing editor of the website that broke the story, and with New York Sun book critic Adam Kirsch.
