Frey Talks James Frey gives his first full newspaper interview since his lies were unmasked. The intervening months have provided little in the way of perspective and it’s a long piece to get through for slim payoff. He confirms the book was submitted — and rejected 17 times, including by Doubleday — as a novel. He does not account for precisely how the change was agreed upon with Nan Talese’s imprint (“it was never once discussed as fiction by me or anyone in my office”), but he does say: “The idea that nobody at the publishing company knew it was […]