James Frey

[A Black Falcon]

Lazy, I think you just don't understand how much stuff like lying in print (or plagarism) matters... primarially to academia and book people probably, but still, for stuff like this that is the best group of people to judge it... saying 'it doesn't matter because it's a story' or whatever when it was in fact passed off as truth when it was lies... these things do have consequences, and they greatly hurt the reputation of the writer. Like that professor I read about sometime who had to admit decades later that all of their stories about fighting in Vietnam they'd been telling for so long were lies and that he'd actually not fought there... to say nothing of plagarism scandals. That is perhaps even worse, and can almost irreparably ruin reputations... for some reason just making stuff up isn't considered quite as bad I guess...