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The Art is Deceitful Above All Things

Over at the Times’ Paper Cuts blog the spectre of JT LeRoy is once again raised. You’ve got to hand it to Laura Albert, her machinations have ensured that this whole succès de scandale w… more »

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The Art is Deceitful Above All Things — 6 comments

ephemerist wrote 4 days ago: Over at the Times’ Paper Cuts blog the spectre of JT LeRoy is once again raised. You’ve … more »

Tags: Literature, cons, JT LeRoy, Savannah Knoop

Writers - Faking it to Make it — 2 comments

lisaj66 wrote 3 months ago: Writing is a tough gig.  I can certainly understand a writer being tempted to elaborate their resum … more »

Tags: Writers, Author, Writers, writing, Margaret B. Jones, memoir, "Love and Consequences", A million little pieces, Riverhead

Fake Memoirs

range wrote 4 months ago: Margaret Seltzer is just the latest in a slue of fake memoirs. Recently, a fake holocaust memoir was … more »

Tags: News, Asides, Asides, Writers, Memoirs, fake, Margaret Seltzer, Fiction, james frey

In Defense of JT LeRoy — 1 comment

irreverently wrote 4 months ago: Everyone reading this blog probably already knows the story: a 15-year-old boy named J.T. LeRoy who … more »

Tags: Controversy, Literature, Popular Culture, andy warhol, Fame!, JT LeRoy, Literature, physical abuse, Sexual abuse

She Speaks (Again): Laura Albert Profiled In Rolling Stone — 3 comments

ephemerist wrote 7 months ago: Add to the list of things that will seemingly survive the end of the world, behind cockroaches and C … more »

Tags: Literature, Rolling Stone, JT LeRoy, literary hoaxes, she still gets interviewed?


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