Byline: Malcolm Jones

Two years after Oprah humiliated him for faking his memoir, James Frey wants to make it all up.

Give James Frey some credit. If you had been humiliated by Oprah Winfrey on television in front of who-knows-how-many-million viewers, you might still be hiding under the bed. If your name became cultural shorthand for "man who invents lots of details in his memoir," you might change that name and move to another country, preferably one that didn't carry "Oprah." But the author of "A Million Little Pieces"--the questionable memoir in question--is made of sterner stuff. In the wake of that public shaming two years ago, he picked himself up, got another ...