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Bright Shiny Morning, James Frey

We don’t think we have to re-hash the whole James Frey falling from grace thing here. But we will say that as bad as Frey’s reputation was, he came back huge with the excellent Bright Shiny Morning. As Janet Maslin at the New York Times wrote, “He got a second act. He got another chance. Look what he did with it. He stepped up to the plate and hit one out of the park.” Or perhaps more succinctly, to quote Irvine Welsh, “Bright Shiny Morning amounts to the literary comeback of the decade.”