James Frey to Face the Music on Oprah

Posted on January 25, 2006

It's time for James Frey to face the music: tomorrow, January 26, 2006, the author will appear once again on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss the controversy surrounding his drug addiction memoir, A Million Little Pieces. And this isn't going to be like the Larry King Live appearance: according to a video on Oprah.com, La Oprah does not sound amused. In fact, she has "a million little questions" for the author. But that's not all. She's also invited several journalists on the program who presumably will be there to poke holes in Frey's account of his life.

Will Frey burst into tears? Will Oprah yell at him or will she be supportive, like she was on Larry King? Will Frey redeem himself? We haven't seen this much attention paid to an actual literary controversy since, well...ever. So, in that sense it's a really positive thing, don't you think? No? Well, it has more literary value than Paris Hilton's antics at Sundance, so there.

Update: Wow! That was entertaining. Oprah did indeed cut Frey into a million little pieces.