A Million Little Words

 

A scathing review full of vitriol and acid. Not about my book, thank God. No, this is for a new book by James Frey, the same fellow who brought you A Million Little Pieces that was supposed to be a memoir, but...oh yeah. It wasn't. The same man who got reamed by Oprah on television. The same man whom HarperCollins gave a million little dollars for his next book? Are they crazy??? But fear not. If this LA Times reviewer is any indication, maybe HarperCollins has learned a million little lessons from this at last.

I have never read a review quite like this. It opens thus:  "Bright Shiny Morning is a terrible book. One of the worst I've ever read." And it pretty much goes downhill from there.

I'm going to try to stay on David Ulin's good side.

You can read the whole review here.