Little Pieces of Los Angeles, Done His Way

for the record, a million little pieces is a brilliant work. forget for a second it is a "fabricated" memoir. as story it is fantastic, gripping and moving; the language and rhetorical devices employed are sparing and are used with care and focus. i read the second book my friend leonard . it's good as well though not quite as good as its predecessor. my appreciation of frey's work was not particularly affected by oprah's calling him out.
what really matters in a story is that what the writer writes is what happened. the story told is, for all intents and purposes, what indeed occurred. one of the best explanations of this is in the book the things they carried by Tim O'Brien.
hurrah for james frey and his new work!