James Frey Posts New Note For Fake Memoir

Just moments ago, Random House posted the new note James Frey wrote that will be included in future copies of A Million Little Pieces. It's no surprise that Frey continues to lie. He says he was only writing the book to help other addicts and that aggrandizing himself as a badass was merely a coping mechanism. He refers again to doing time in prison, when Frey never went to prison -- being in a holding cell for a few hours before getting out on bail is NOT going to prison. Finally, he says this:

I believe, and I understand others strongly disagree, that memoir allows the writer to work from memory instead of from a strict journalistic or historical standard.

James Frey did NOT work from memory. If he made an honest mistake about details because he simply remembered it differently or had a different attitude about his counselors or his parents or whatever, there would be no controversy. But James Frey didn't remember things wrong. He MADE THEM UP. He LIED. Frey never for a moment thought he'd spent three months in jail or brawled with cops or gambled and played cards during group therapy sessions or broke his nose and had it reset casually by attendants at Hazelden rather than being taken for medical care. He just lied because he thought it would make a better story.

And Random House is lying when they continue to market this book as a memoir. There is only one disclaimer appropriate for this book: FICTION.