James Frey on Designing Your Life to Bring Joy

For our final episode of Season 11, the author James Frey joins us to talk about his latest novel, “Next to Heaven,” a rollicking, raunchy, absurd-yet-not satire about the one percent of the one percent living in a fictional Connecticut town. Frey also reflects on the 20-plus years since publishing his first book, “A Million Little Pieces,” which blew up in controversy and became a soaring media spectacle; his long-term study of Taoism and how he tries to live according to the ways of the Tao as much as he can; his writing as a gateway to being as vulnerable, open, and bold as possible; and why love, for him, is the greatest drug there is.