Both the gloriously lapsed and disappointingly non-lapsed Catholics among us already know that today, of course, is Good Friday, the most dramatic and darkest moment in the Christ saga before his (alleged!) resurrection, which will occur on Sunday and somehow directly cause you to eat ham. Being that it’s all dark and weird and shit, Good Friday is also, these days, a great time for idiot-to-some/folk-hero-to-others author James Frey to release a new book — which, as it turns out, is also seasonally appropriate. The Final Testament Of The Holy Bible, out today via Frey himself on digital formats and the Gagosian Gallery in printed form, sees Frey re-imagining the story of the Messiah if he were to come down as a radical bisexual messenger of love and euthanasia. Frey, who caused an international stir a few years ago in a controversy where the takeaway should have been “memoir is every bit a lie as much as fiction” but somehow was villainized instead, can probably expect for his book to be spat upon in the public square but totally lionized by guys who like Fight Club. You can read an excerpt here, and scope the product here. And yes, this all means that Frey will go on Oprah again.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 22nd, 2011 at 11:26 am.