• Publishers Weekly, Wednesday, February 1, 2006 11 AM

Writer James Frey has lost everything (except his royalties) in recent days as a result of disclosures about his bestselling book, A Million Little Pieces.  And now he's even lost his literary agent.  Kassie Evashevski, of Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, says she's bailing on Frey. "It became impossible for me to maintain a relationship once the trust had been broken," she tells Publishers Weekly in a Q&A piece.  "He eventually did apologize [to me], but I felt for many reasons that I had to let him go as a client." Frey's former agent says she doesn't believe he set out to con his audience when he wrote his so-called memoir of the road back from a drug-rattled life. She tells PW she did not know of Frey's deception until just before TheSmokingGun's revelations were published online. The one possible beneficial result of the Frey controversy may be some systemic changes in the way book-publishing houses fact-check their titles.

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