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and booksellers.   James Frey’s Bright Shiny Morning  It's rare
that you meet, much less interview, someone as notorious as
James Frey. Frey's debut, A Million Little Pieces, received
great reviews, found a wide audience as an Oprah's Book Club
pick, and sold over a million copies. But when it was discovered
that Frey had embellished parts of his memoir, the backlash was
quick and vitriolic — he was famously thrashed by Oprah herself.
Right away, he slipped out of the public's favor and then, at
last, out of the headlines. James Frey  Now Frey has come
roaring back into the spotlight with Bright Shiny Morning. A
sweeping, stylized novel with four major narratives and
historical asides, it portrays "the American dream" in all its
beauty and its ugliness, as painted on the canvas of Los
Angeles.  Bright Shiny Morning has polarized critics. Some, like
Janet Maslin of the New York Times, a