James Frey with Oprah Winfrey during his 2006 appearance on her show

Is James Frey trying to threaten — while slandering — Oprah Winfrey in a new section added to the paperback version of his novel, Biright Shiny Morning? Could he be any sleazier?

Okay, first question first: A Page Six report says a new section added to the paperback version of the novel is about a guy “caught up in a highly publicized controversy and a television show that he knows is going to end badly for him. When he feels people ‘turning on him,’ he starts taping all his phone calls, including some with ‘the producers of the show, the executive producer of the show.’ After getting publicly eviscerated, he tapes one with ‘the host,’ where she checks to make sure he isn’t ‘going to hurt himself’ and reveals some startling information about herself.”

What’s more, says Page Six, “Near the end of the passage, the narrator informs us that he has made copies of the tapes and distributed them to friends for safekeeping.”

Answer to the second question: Anything’s possible.