Just about everyone knows about James Frey’s fall from grace and off the best-seller list with his faux memoir “A Million Little Pieces.” A public reprimand on Oprah’s couch will do that to an author. (Or anyone for that matter.)
But according to Janet Maslin’s book review, “Little Pieces of Los Angeles, Done His Way,” in the New York Times, Frey’s new novel (yes, novel: this time Frey made the smart decision of going with fiction), “Bright Shiny Morning,” set in Los Angeles, sounds pretty darn fantastic:
Maslin’s review is close to an ode, and she finishes with the highest note that Frey could hope for: claiming that by writing “Bright Shiny Morning,” that this is “how James Frey saved himself.”