james frey is an asshole

Good for The Smoking Gun for outing as a liar that asshole James Frey, the author of A Million Little Pieces. He’s made many millions of dollars trading on his supposedly felonious past — a past that, it turns out, was almost 100 percent fiction.
I remember thinking he was a bullshit artist when I learned (NY Observer, 2/3/03, now offline) that he first shopped his “memoir” as fiction, only to see it rejected 17 times. And, if the excerpts in the Smoking Gun article are any judge, he’s a miserably bad writer. Should be interesting to see if he gets the public asskicking he should.