Literary Rogues
“Now they’re just sort of wimps.”
—JAMES FREY Nicholas Sparks, the former pharmaceutical sales rep who attained success writing bittersweet love stories like The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, follows a “grandmother rule” when it comes to his books. “My grandmother’s still alive; she reads me, and if she would get mad at me, then I can’t write it,” he told Writer’s Digest. James Frey (b. 1969) has no such rule. In fact, you might say he writes with the intent to shock grandmothers everywhere.
...“In literature, you don’t see many radical books,” Frey once told a Canadian journalist. “That’s what I want to do: write radical books that confuse and confound, polarize opinions. I’ve already been cast out of ‘proper’ American literary circles. I don’t have to be a good boy anymore. I find that the older I get, the more radical my work becomes.” It should come as no surprise that Frey looks up to bad boy writers like Norman Mailer and Bret Easton Ellis. In fact, Frey says Mailer even told him, “You’re the next one of us.”MoreLess
—JAMES FREY Nicholas Sparks, the former pharmaceutical sales rep who attained success writing bittersweet love stories like The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, follows a “grandmother rule” when it comes to his books. “My grandmother’s still alive; she reads me, and if she would get mad at me, then I can’t write it,” he told Writer’s Digest. James Frey (b. 1969) has no such rule. In fact, you might say he writes with the intent to shock grandmothers everywhere.
...“In literature, you don’t see many radical books,” Frey once told a Canadian journalist. “That’s what I want to do: write radical books that confuse and confound, polarize opinions. I’ve already been cast out of ‘proper’ American literary circles. I don’t have to be a good boy anymore. I find that the older I get, the more radical my work becomes.” It should come as no surprise that Frey looks up to bad boy writers like Norman Mailer and Bret Easton Ellis. In fact, Frey says Mailer even told him, “You’re the next one of us.”MoreLess
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