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James Frey

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood

    Reading Charlotte Silver's new memoir, Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood is like being in an art museum, gazing at images of another time and place. And that's what Silver, 31, had in mind when she wrote this remembrance of her early years growing up in her mother's four-star ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 23, 2011

    There's No Center Like PEN Center

    Reading Charlotte Silver's new memoir, Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood is like being in an art museum, gazing at images of another time and place. And that's what Silver, 31, had in mind when she wrote this remembrance of her early years growing up in her mother's four-star ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    April 28, 2011

    Turning a Negative Into a Positive

    Three new photography exhibits explore the accidental artistry of pre-digital techniques

  • Film+TV

    February 17, 2011

    I Am Number Four

    Three new photography exhibits explore the accidental artistry of pre-digital techniques

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Stage Raw: Loveland

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Stage Raw: Voombodian Women from Outer Space!

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterVOOMBODIAN WOMEN FROM OUTER SPACE! Staged reading of Barry Schwam's new play at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $5 (626) 355-4318 AN EVENING WITH PAT BOONE, ... More >>

  • Stage

    September 9, 2010

    Theater Reviews: Something to Crow About, Waiting fr Lefty and more

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterVOOMBODIAN WOMEN FROM OUTER SPACE! Staged reading of Barry Schwam's new play at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $5 (626) 355-4318 AN EVENING WITH PAT BOONE, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Stage Raw: Waiting for Lefty

    NEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Neighbors, at the MatrixNEW REVIEW GO WAITING FOR LEFTY ​Photo by Thomas MikuszThis dynamic 1935 one-act launched the career of playwright Clifford Odets, became an important social document, and solidified the reputation of the Group Theatre. Seeing it now, ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    June 17, 2010

    The Tyranny of the New

    Why the future of books might be old books

  • Art+Books

    April 15, 2010

    Been There. Done What?!

    Jillian Lauren opens up about her life as a teenage harem girl in Brunei

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    I Am Ozzy: Soon-To-Be Classic Quotes from Ozzy Osbourne's Upcoming Autobiography

    ​There are some amazing sentences in Ozzy Osbourne's new autobiography, I Am Ozzy. In fact, the book starts off with a classic disclaimer: Other people's memories of the stuff in this book might not be the same as mine. I ain't gonna argue with 'em. Over the past forty years I've been loaded ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    August 21, 2008

    Reporter, Examine Thyself: The Night of the Gun

    David Carr fact-checks his own life with unflinching seriousness . . . and that's the problem

  • News

    March 13, 2008

    Fake Memoirist Channels Sherman Alexie

    Margaret Seltzer's untruths and consequences

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2008

    Sherman Alexie on Margaret Seltzer

    Margaret B. Plagiarizin'? A little over two years ago, in the midst of the Oprah/James Frey fiasco, I wrote an expose called Navahoax that outed award-winning "Navajo" memoirist Nasdijj as being Tim Barrus -- a middle-class white guy from Lansing, Michigan, who was also a failed writer of gay porn ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    February 21, 2008

    The Life and Death of JT LeRoy

    Lies and follies of Laura Albert

  • Art+Books

    February 21, 2008

    The Lies and Follies of Laura Albert, a.k.a. JT LeRoy

    No exit plan

  • Music

    July 12, 2007

    The Meat Puppets' Magic Brother Missing

    Cris Kirkwood returns from the near dead, and the Meat Puppets are back

  • Film+TV

    April 5, 2007

    Faking It

    Hallström’s Hoax isn’t fully committed to the con

  • Film+TV

    August 3, 2006

    Film Reviews

    Barnyard, Brothers of the Head, The Night Listener and more

  • Art+Books

    April 27, 2006

    Poor, Solitary, Nasty, Brutish and Short

    Chris Abani and the literature of suffering

  • News

    April 6, 2006

    Pellicano's Rat Pack

    Loose lips and sinking ships

  • News

    February 16, 2006

    Un-a-Frey-ed of the Truth

    Loose lips and sinking ships

  • Film+TV

    February 16, 2006

    Truth to Oprah Power

    Loose lips and sinking ships

  • Art+Books

    February 9, 2006

    Memoir and Mystery

    Bernard Cooper’s Bill From My Father

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    Emotional Truth & Brother Leader

    Bernard Cooper’s Bill From My Father

  • News

    January 26, 2006

    Navahoax

    Did a struggling white writer of gay erotica become one of multicultural literature’s most celebrated memoirists — by passing himself off as Native American?

  • News

    January 26, 2006

    Free James Frey!

    In defense of the post-truth memoir

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2005

    A Christmas Caroline

    This Christmas, I had hoped to fly back to London, gorge myself on Mum's turkey and sip sherry with my long lost Brit posse. But Fate, it turned out, had other plans in store... 24 hours before my Christmas Eve flight was due to depart, I wandered in to a psychic's den on Hollywood Boulevard in Lit ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    January 22, 2004

    Pit Bulls and Tigers and Bears — Oh My!

    This Christmas, I had hoped to fly back to London, gorge myself on Mum's turkey and sip sherry with my long lost Brit posse. But Fate, it turned out, had other plans in store... 24 hours before my Christmas Eve flight was due to depart, I wandered in to a psychic's den on Hollywood Boulevard in Lit ... More >>

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