July 24, 2008
* rock bottom - "Where does a junkie’s time go? Mostly in 15-minute increments, like a bug-eyed Tarzan, swinging from hit to hit."
* rock bottom - "RAVE: My Life Since Getting Out of Prison"
* silver spoon - "The Disadvantages of an Elite Education"
* silver spoon - "the sedulous banality of the rich degrades teaching into a service-class preoccupation whose chief duty is preparing clients for monied careers."
The first two, in particular, are extraordinary.
Yeah, I know. That's one of the reasons I was so taken with juxtaposition of these, which basically bubbled to the top of my rss feed together. Carr's book was written with Frey firmly in mind:
He pitched it as something of an antithesis to James Frey-style fabulism. Instead of offering his view of his life, he will produce a fully journalistic, third-person, reportorial autobiography, one based on the grim paper trail of rehab, police, and foster-care records, and the not-always-comforting recollections of friends, lovers, and colleagues who were once tossed in his wake.
Watch the embedded video in the Times piece (it's quick) for an example of this.
I have no idea if the CL one is true: there are a few too many tropes dancing around together. I hope it is, though.
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Do you think the CL one is fer realz? I think it's a fine piece of writing, but... hey, maybe it's James Frey... :)
posted by ms cegenation at 11:24PM CST on July 24