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ly to find out jim morrison is too stoned to sing man doesn t that suck i mean how disappointing 5 i must not get joan didion i don t find what s so appealing about a rich californian drop names i was invited to a civil rights meeting over at sammy davis jr s house and i hear william styron and ossie davis arguing write boring essays about water treatment plants and discuss movies that no one remembers maybe i m jaded and maybe i expected something as brilliant as the year of magical thinking but it didn t deliver and i was really disappointed c posted by tyler 9 29 am 2 comments saturday february 04 2006 c vann woodward the burden of southern history c vann woodward is my hero i want to be an academic just like him one day reading the burden of southern history a collection of essays written about various southern history issues ranging from john brown to the civil rights movement was extremely enjoyable especially since it was so well written instead of giving a synopsis of the whole collection i ll include my favorite passage from the essay a second look at the theme of irony a response to his own essay included in the first edition of burden a second look ruminates upon the escalation of the civil rights movement from the late 50s to the assassination of martin luther king jr as well as the vietnam conflict his thesis is that americans have suppressed the realization that they are invincible he writes that southerners even after losing one war and barely coming through the first reconstruction period hopelessly cling onto several lost causes both in the historical sense as well as the present this passage is eerily relevant for our present times h istory has begun to catch up with americans the fabled immunity from frustration and defeat has faltered its magic on several fronts foreign as well as domestic national security traditionally perceived as free a natural right of americans has been stripped away by revolutions in weaponry such security as remains far from free is purchased at frightful cost with more power than ever before more than any nation has ever had we enjoy less security than we did in an era of national weakness and we have found that all our power and fabulous weaponry can be ineffective in a war with a weak and undeveloped nation torn by a civil war of its own in the meantime the innocence and virtue with which we assume american motives are natively endowed especially in relations with other nations had become a stock subject of jeers and ridicule even among our friends and allies not only were we threatened with failure and defeat in a commitment of national honor but we were convicted of guilt and perfidy in the court of world opinion a posted by tyler 8 08 pm 0 comments friday january 27 2006 james frey on oprah posted by tyler 1 30 am 0 comments thursday january 26 2006 god bless oprah oprah had james frey on her show this morning along with his publisher nan a talese and she angrily confronted him about producing a fictional memoir and duping her and her viewers from usa today oprah confronts frey about disputed memoir chicago ap in a stunning switch from dismissive to disgusted oprah winfrey took on one of her chosen authors james frey accusing him on live television of lying about a million little pieces and letting down the many fans of his memoir of addiction and recovery i feel duped she said thursday on her syndicated talk show but more importantly i feel that you betrayed millions of readers frey who found himself booed in the same chicago studio where he had been embraced not long ago acknowledged that he had lied a sometimes angry sometimes tearful winfrey asked frey why he felt the need to lie audience members often groaned and gasped at frey s halting stuttered admissions that certain facts and characters had been altered but that the essence of his memoir was real i don t think it is a novel frey said of his book which had initially been offered to publishers and rejected by many as fiction i still think it s a memoir thursday s broadcast rare proof that the contents of a book can lead to great tabloid tv marked an abrupt reversal from the cozy chat two weeks ago on larry king live when winfrey phoned in to support frey and label alleged fabrications as much ado about nothing i left the impression that the truth is not important winfrey said thursday of last week s call saying that e mail after e mail from supporters of the book had cast a cloud over her judgment on a segment that also featured the book s publisher nan a talese of doubleday frey was questioned about various parts of his book from the three month jail sentence he now says he never served to undergoing dental surgery without novocain a story he no longer clearly recalls winfrey whose apparent indifference to the memoir s accuracy led to intense criticism including angry e mails on her website subjected frey to a virtual page by page interrogation no longer as she told king was she saying that emotional truth mattered more than the facts mr bravado tough guy she mockingly called the author whose book she had enshrined last fall and whose reputation she had recently saved talese and doubleday were not spared winfrey noted that her staff had been alerted to possible discrepancies in frey s book only to be assured by the publisher she lectured talese on her responsibilities i m trusting you the publisher to categorize this book whether as fiction or autobiographical or memoir talese an industry veteran whose many authors have included ian mcewan george plimpton and thomas cahill told winfrey that editors who saw the book raised no questions and that a million pieces received a legal vetting she acknowledged that the book had not been fact checked something many publishers say they have little time to do in a statement issued later thursday doubleday which initially had called the allegations not worth looking into said it had sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished the publisher said an author s note was being prepared that will be sent to booksellers to insert into current editions and that any future printings would be delayed until the note is included in the actual book but no changes in the text are planned and the book will remain classified as a memoir winfrey s words also were harsher than her actions she did not unleash publishing s version of the death penalty revoking her endorsement a devastating and unprecedented action only once before has she turned relatively mildly on a book club pick in 2001 she withdrew her invitation for jonathan franzen author of the corrections to appear on her show after the novelist expressed ambivalence over her endorsement her current choice is elie wiesel s classic night a memoir with a concise literary style that has led some to call it a novel three years ago frey stepped up as publishing s latest and baddest bad boy with tattooed initials on his arm ftbsitttd bearing a defiant and unprintable message winfrey s selection made his book a million seller and frey a hero to many who believed his story was theirs in order to get through the experience of the addiction i thought of myself as being tougher than i was and badder than i was and it helped me cope frey said thursday on winfrey s show and when i was writing the book instead of being as introspective as i should have been i clung to that image frey s career will likely never recover although so far he has not suffered for sales his book a million seller thanks to winfrey remained in the top 5 thursday on amazon com a second memoir my friend leonard was in the top 20 he currently has a two book deal with riverhead books an imprint of penguin group usa with a novel about contemporary los angeles due in 2007 the publisher did not have an immediate comment thursday beyond frey and his publishers stories of suffering may themselves take a fall frey s saga comes at a time when the work and even the identities of such alleged hard luck authors as j t leroy and nasdijj have been questioned st martin s press recently added a disclaimer to an upcoming book by augusten burroughs another memoirist who has been challenged i think for a while this will make people careful said ashbel green a senior editor at alfred a knopf but this question of fact checking is a complicated one at the new yorker and time and newsweek you have experienced people who know where to go and what s right and what s wrong we don t there s been a traditional dependency on the author i think oprah is fantastic she could have just ignored the controversy and left it with the statement she made on larry king live i think it was extremely bold for her to confront frey on her show and i applaud her for it posted by tyler 6 16 pm 2 comments monday january 23 2006 james frey a million little pieces i thought about writing two reviews of this book one review of it as a novel and one as a memoir i decided not to however because honestly i m so happy to be finished with it that i don t want to spent anymore time with it than i have to i could write my own damn book about it but i m not going to in brief a million little pieces is not good i realize that i am a bit biased since i started the novel after the news broke that james frey exaggerated a lot of details of his life exaggerated doesn t seem like the right word did anyone really believe this shit before frey s lies were uncovered the whole book is filled with elements that just fall together in just the right places there s no way things happened that way now the placement of certain elements in the book to serve the thematic essence of the story is forgivable what is unforgivable about frey s book is the numerous events that come across as complete bullshit for example frey s account of his treatment for drug and alcohol abuse begins when he wakes up on an airplane that has landed in chicago he is covered in blood and vomit his four front teeth are missing and he has a large hole in his cheek later in the book he recounts talking to a friend who was with him the night before his friend took him to the hospital after his accident which i don t think i may not remember frey actually describes in the book pleaded with the doctors to not call the police then dropped him off at the airport to be flown to chicago to meet his parents frey treats this as if it is absolutely normal of course he was just put on an airplane and no one was disturbed that he was covered in blood because his four front teeth had just been knocked out not to mention the large hole in his cheek this happens before frey describes receiving two root canals without pain killers or anesthesia which makes absolutely no sense considering lidocaine the most commonly used dental anesthetic is not a narcotic or addictive other than being over the top and false frey s book is very pompous and prententious the james character is completely unsympathetic he break rules at the treatment center and is given second chances he refuses to blame his addictions on anyone other than himself yet when his parents try to mend a broken relationship during a visit he reacts by explaining to them how much he hates them even admitting that there isn t a reason but his own what is remarkable is that all of the other characters who james feuds with end up conceding to him a twenty three year old alcoholic and drug addict what infuriates me the most is that he finishes his program after refusing to accept the twelve step program according to the epilogue he has never replapsed well if that is true it just belittles the alcoholics anonymous program and the men and women who have found solace in it the book itself reminds me of the shawshank redemption it is filled with despicable characters who demand the reader s sympathy even though they do not deserve it the men that frey writes about are not victims of their own addictions they chose their lifestyle their behaviors at the treatment facility is just as deplorable as their behaviors outside the only difference being the absence of drugs and alcohol the worst thing about this book is that people continue to defend it because it has helped so many people i m dubious of anyone whose life changes based on reading a book and i can t imagine a drug addict similar to those in this book putting down his or her crack pipe long enough to read someone s narcissistic account of his own recovery it has done nothing but place the genre of autobiography into further scrutiny there is something wrong with our culture if we can let james frey continue to deceive a nation of readers simply because calling his book a memoir makes for an easier sell d posted by tyler 2 33 am 5 comments monday january 16 2006 william faulkner requiem for a nun the past is never dead it s not even past faulkner s sequel to his bestselling novel sanctuary is definitely a minor work compared to his pre world war ii fiction the book is problematic in its experimental study of how the past affects the present faulkner uses prose and play form the prose sections are much like his earlier work full of long winded yet beautifully written stream of consciousness passages that chronicle the history of jefferson the county seat of his fictional yoknapatawpha the play which practically stands completely separate from the prose sections concerns temple drake eight years after her kidnapping by the gangster popeye in sanctuary temple is now married to gowan stevens a featured character from the book s prequel and the mother of two children when the play begins we learn that the children s african american nanny nancy has been sentenced to death for the murder of temple s six month old daughter nancy s defense attorney and gowan s uncle gavin stevens a central character in faulkner s intruder in the dust comes to temple the night before nancy s execution and convinces her through guilt to accompany him to the governor of mississippi to plead clemency for nancy i found faulkner s use of the play form to tell temple s story very interesting since the plot relied on her confessions it seemed appropriate that faulkner would limit his study of one of his most conflicted characters to dialogue i m not familiar with the play s history on the stage and given its frequent three page monologues and awkward framing i can t imagine it would be very entertaining to watch especially since so much of it focuses on temple s experiences in sanctuary overall it was an interesting read although it cannot be compared to faulkner s earlier work i would recommend it to faulkner fans or anyone who enjoyed sanctuary and found temple drake to be as an intriguing and complicated character as i did b posted by tyler 2 43 am 3 comments manifesto this will become a group blog written by friends and or online buddies who enjoy reading and sharing with others about what they read it may be about 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