Good news for fabricating memoirist James Frey and his once-embattled publisher: His first novel, Bright Shiny Morning, just debuted at number 9 on the Times bestseller list, with 14,000 copies sold. We hear HarperCollins is pleased, reports the Observer's Leon Neyfakh. Among the many, many people not sharing the publisher's glee are certain proud citizens of Los Angeles, who have begun to notice false statements in the book about their city and its history. New York reviewers adore the book because they think it nails L.A., wrote LA Observed. But get this: It doesn't! The book is filled w...

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