Well, I\u2019ve had a chat with my literary critic with whom I had spoken about memoirs, and I wish to back down from my genre definition and say that, from what I understand of Frey\u2019s memoir, he is too fancy-free with the facts to fit within the memoir category. I stand corrected and so I deleted the post. My friend tells me that memoirs do distinguish themselves from autobiography in the exploration of a coherent story, but not by fabricating essential facts. Re-ordering events, changing names, slight elaborations \u2014 all are fair game. Well, I\u2019ve had a chat with my literary critic with whom I had spoken about memoirs, and I wish to back down from my genre definition and say that, from what I understand of Frey\u2019s memoir, he is too fancy-free with the facts to fit within the memoir category. I stand corrected and so I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nBut, if SmokingGun.com is correct in its portrayal of facts they find inaccurate or simply made up, then Frey\u2019s A Million Little Pieces<\/em> exceeds tolerable limits for a memoir. Frey, as Harry Frankfurt would say it in his inimitable piece with its inelegant title, On Bullshit<\/em>, has moved into BSing.
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