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January 08, 2006
More Like JT SHEroy
The rumors appear to have been true. JT Leroy has been outed pretty conclusively-- in the New York Times, no less-- as an invention of Laura Albert, Leroy's guardian and long-time lead suspect. JT Leroy's stand-in is no hired actor, though! It seems JT Leroy has been played by Ms. Albert's partner's sister, Savannah Knoop. Way to go, guys!
Just this morning I was feeling blue, flipping through Steve's copy of McSweeney's No. 18 and feeling like I have no place in the world. See, as more and more names of people I know, names of people I went to school with, took classes with, am the same age as start to pop up on mastheads, it just becomes clearer to me how much I'm not a participant in the world I thought I wanted to be a part of. I realize the whole McSweeney's/ Believer/ n + 1 is very much where any young person interested in writing wants to be, but, I just don't. I want to, because I want to be a participant in a world of writers, but there is something so personalityish about those places that I just can't stomach. They all seem a little too cool for me. They seem cliquish-- maybe that's it; they just trigger some adolescent self-preservation mechanism that makes me averse to the idea of applying for an internship or submitting a story, even though that's ultimately self-defeating.
Ok, I do realize there isn't any direct connection between any of this and the JT Leroy hoax and I'm absolutly rambling for no other reason than to put off writing cover letters for job applications, but, I'm just saying, all the cool people in the cool club and all the celebrities who totally jumped on the JT Leroy bandwagon because he was so cool, don't you all feel like asses! I mean, not for liking his/ her books. That's neither here nor there. But people who got all wrapped up in the personna-- ha, ha! Trendy suckers!
Also, this is kind of funny.
Posted by hissycat at January 8, 2006 04:51 PM
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The bookslut interview w/ jt leroy is funny too.
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