"James Frey Is A 'Rockstar Vampire' On Facebook" Hee! Care of the kids over at Gawker, this hed brings up a good point: we haven't a clue as to how play this newfangled vampire game, and we're afraid to ask. Please, Facebook family, stop biting and baiting us. We feel like we're back in junior high, stuck on the football field, frightened by this touch football game all the other kids seem to play......

Last week's winner, the Guardian: Gavin just wants to be able to park his cars downtown, guys! Congratulations, A.C. Thompson, for winning a Polk Award for your article about the deplorable conditions in SF public housing! Cover: This week in Steven Jones's ongoing Burning Man series -- Burning Man goes to Katrina. A review of 50 Cent's videogame, f/ the vocal talents of G-Unit, Dre, and Eminem. Get Rich Or Die Trying indeed. Someone yells at the Sonic Reducer to stop chewing her gum so loud at the Jeff Tweedy show. Email newsletter Books To Watch Out For, by the former publisher of the Feminist Bookstore News. We're signing up right now! And the newest restaurant at 22nd and Guerrero. The East Bay Express: A profile of the very busy doctor trying to recall Schwarzenegger. Goth-metal scapegoating in the Scott Dyleski trial. Cover article: Couples who buy houses instead of getting married. Peaches Christ went to Penn State? Go Nittany Lions! Ayelet Waldman's entertaining solipsism continues. Our secret boyfriend Rob Harvilla goes to the 107.7 Bone Rock Girl competition. Going all James Frey on Motley Crue's The Dirt. And SFist Eve is at the helm of her personal Starship Enterprise! Beam us up, SFist Eve! After the jump, the SF Weekly and the SJ Metro, and the Pick of the Week. ...

So are the people behind the J.T. Leroy hoax all irritated that James Frey has gotten the bulk of the publicity -- and subsequent sales boost -- in the "Authors who misrepresent themselves to the public" press beat? Is that why Geoffrey Knoop is now giving interviews in which he admits that (former) partner Laura Albert was the one who created J.T. Leroy, wrote under that name, and duped all sorts of literati? We......

Seems like almost every news site out there is all aflutter over James Frey's appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show today, and far be it from us to not join in the hubbub. Being that we haven't actually read Frey's book, we weren't too perturbed over the Smoking Gun's story. We didn't read the book and come away from it thinking, "Wow. I can't believe one man came out of that story alive. Like,......

The creative team behind J.T. Leroy should send James Frey flowers, since his little revelations have given the J. T. Leroy hoax story a sort of also-ran quality. However, we were pleased to see the San Francisco Chronicle finally pick up the story and give it a well-sourced local angle. First up: the local literary Who's Who with regard to who was sucked in: Dave Eggers, Susie Bright, David Wigand, Michael Ray, Michael Chabon......

Ah, nothing like controversy to get the week off to a good start. Susie Bright isn't particularly happy after lending JT her support early on (scroll down for more from Susie in the comments). And Edward Champion reminds us that JT isn't the only one lacking a firm grasp on the line between fact and fiction, with James Frey under the microscope. Municide publishes a response to their own flight of fancy, purportedly from......