James Frey is the author of A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard. He is originally from Cleveland. He lives in New York.
Time Magazine just posted a review of my new book, Bright Shiny Morning. Check it out if you can, here's the link:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1738502,00.html
In the print version they call me "The Most Notorious Author in America", which I actually think is pretty funny and pretty cool.
Have a great weekend -
James Frey
I posted the other day about a piano player named Eric Lewis I saw perform last Saturday. I tracked him and his manager down and now he's doing my reading in New York with me. He'll play before and after I read, and will accompany me while I read. It should be very cool. Definitely different. You won't have ever seen a reading like it.
It's at the Blender Theater, on 23rd and Lexington, in New York City, next Tuesday May 13th, at 7:00. Josh Kilmer-Purcell, who is about to release his new book, Candy Everybody Wants, will also be reading. Buy it on Amazon right now!
James Frey
Met a writer at Columbia a few weeks ago named Liza Monroy. I was up there having lunch with a group of writing students. At the end of the lunch, she told me she had a novel being published by Spiegel and Grau at Random House. I asked her why she was in school if she was publishing a novel, she shrugged and laughed.
Anyway, I read the novel, called Mexican High. It comes out this month. It's really entertaining, incredibly well done, almost too good to have been written by someone her age. Check it out if you have a chance. You won't be disappointed.
James Frey
Went to a small club on Lafayette St. in New York. Pianist named Eric Lewis. He used to play in Wynton Marsalis' Band. Now he's playing rock covers and originals. Calls it hardcore piano. Never seen anything like it. Never seen anyone as good at anything as he is on his piano. Was absolutely unbelievable. There's no record yet. Hopefully soon. For now check him out if he's ever in your area, or go to his Myspace.
May is here. Two big things for me this month. One is that I am guest-blogging on Amazon all month. The other is that my new novel, Bright Shiny Morning, comes out on May 13th. Will check in now and then with updates, stories, impressions. I'll be doing some press, and will be on tour for a couple weeks. If you can, come check out the shows. Things are going to vary from venue to venue, but I'll have other writers reading with me, projected images, music, lights, live bands in LA and San Francisco. The band in LA is called Black Tide, and they're one of the best metal bands in the country, they played te main stage on OzzFest last summer. The band is SF is called 3rdrail, and has a big local following. They both rock.
That's it for now. Here's to Amazon for inviting me to do this all month.
James Frey
Listen to an interview with author Steve Coll about his new book The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century.
