Tuesday May 23, 2006

Did We Learn Nothing From James Frey?

Or did we learn everything? I can just imagine the syllabus for this MediaBistro course on memoir writing, especially “Week 3: Creating Characters,” where students learn the ins and outs of fabricating such crowd-pleasers as the wise cellmate, the suicidal girlfriend, and—of course—the college town desperado. At the last class, everyone gets humiliated by Oprah. Real world stuff, not that crap they teach you in j-school.