My favorite line from James Frey‘s interview with the Wall Street Journal about his new novel, Bright Shiny Morning: “Most of the facts in the book are real.”
The WSJ has an excerpt from the novel, and the paper really should’ve been presented it as a quiz/reader’s guide: How many alleged facts here are accurate? What are the odds that James Frey was sneering and consulting Very Little Known Facts when he was composing this passage?
It is legal for human beings to marry rocks in the City of Los Angeles.
The first such marriage occurred in 1950, when a secretary at an autoparts factory named Jannene Swift married a large piece of granite.
The Port of Los Angeles handles almost 200 million tons of cargo every year.
For some reason that, despite extensive scientific research, remains unknown, potato chips weigh more in Los Angeles than in any other part of America.
There are sixty-five people in Los Angeles who have the legal name Jesus Christ.
There is more pornography produced in Los Angeles than in the rest of the world combined.
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