Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• NUNES, MARK

Titel

A Million Little Blogs: Community, Narrative, and the James Frey Controversy

Ist Teil von

• Journal of popular culture, 2011-04, Vol.44 (2), p.347-366

Ort / Verlag

Malden, USA: Blackwell Publishing Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Nunes talks about James Frey's controversy over his memoir A Million Little Pieces. The story of the controversy is a tangled tale of communication in the contemporary moment, involving three high profile media figures--James Frey, Oprah Winfrey, and Larry King--along with an audience of millions of readers, television viewers, and bloggers. But it is also a tale of community and the ways in which a narrative structures itself in an informatic society. In 2003, James Frey published a memoir that purported to describe his experience as a young tough with a growing chemical dependency. The book sketched out his descent into the underworld of addiction, his struggle to stay clean, and his emergence into a life free of drugs and alcohol. In the fall of 2005, Oprah Winfrey chose A Million Little pieces for her book club.