[Mb-civic] James Frey

[Ian]

>From Clyde Haberman's wonderful piece on this issue:

"Anyone could confuse a few hours in jail with a few months, especially if he has brains addled by booze and drugs.  Can't blame book publishers, those pillars of New York culture, for a little glitch like that, can you?

"Presumably, it would be fine with them were we to learn that Lance Armstrong triumphed over nothing more serious than saddle sores, that Frank McCourt was born to landed gentry, and that Joan Crawford actually adored wire hangars...All this stuff, remember, is highly personal by definition."
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