JT Leroy

I haven't read a single JT Leroy book or essay but I find this whole saga kind of interesting and sad.

I don't get how quite understand how Sarah is "value-less" now.

I kind of get that people would potentially be less interested in the movie knowing that it's fiction. Antidote might have bought the rights thinking they could sell it as "based on a true story."

yeah I mean if a girl in brooklyn gets molested by her mom's boyfriends as a pre-teen and ends up running away from home to san francisco and all that, that's nothing anybody'd pay to see.

but if it's a gender-confused boy in west virginia then that's box office gold

The soundtrack to the movie should be done by Rob & Fab.

yeah I mean if a girl in brooklyn gets molested by her mom's boyfriends as a pre-teen and ends up running away from home to san francisco and all that, that's nothing anybody'd pay to see.

Tom it says pretty clearly that they tried to expand the rights to include her PERSONAL life story as creator-of-Leroy, and she wasn't cooperative.

Fab's dead Steve

yeah im surprised to say it but im kind of coming down on that psycho's side on this one

(xp)

er no wait Rob is the dead one

well that is the real shame here.

I must have missed that nabisco, sorry. either way though seriously why would anybody want to go see this as a film, it sounds like some requiem for a dream level shit (which I did go see. and also pollock. I was dumb)

Requiem for a Dream ugh

And she lost the case.

Hmmmm...what if I'd been on that jury?

omg can't believe jt leroy is guilty of fraud. what is this world coming to.

nasdijj > leroy in all ways, he doesn't apologize or try to justify, he just spits incoherent venom at his enemies

That's a great article.

suzy is hilarious on this thread

In Australia in recent years we've had Helen Demidenko:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Darville

...and, much earlier, the celebrated fictitious poet Erm Malley:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern_Malley

There is a Wiki subcategory on the subject with links to these and various other hoaxes (including a personal favourite, Lobsang Rampa):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Literary_hoaxes

*Ern Malley

"Requiem For A Dream" was great!

adam OTM

JT Leroy is no joke perpetrated by anyone, he's BRILLIANT. And does make the occasional appearance. The only thing about the whole phenomenon that sucks is Ms C Love is angling to play the mum in the film of Sarah.

-- suzy, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (5 years ago) Link

lollololoolololol

u is a sucka

; )

Another Australian lit hoax I didn't know about is on that Wiki page - Wanda Koolmatrie, who turned out to be a male taxi driver rather than a female Indigenous member of the stolen generation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Koolmatrie

Interesting how so many of these hoaxes win literary awards, and the frequency with which they involve a white author purporting to provide an insider view of the life, culture and sturglle of a minority or oppressed group.

Oh, how they sturglle, those sturglling ones.

at least suzy didn't claim to be a personal friend.

Dude please, 2001? The book *had* just come out, I liked the writing, and yeah I have an old Cooper connection. BFD.

It could be a lot worse. One could be my former editor, who thought she was participating in phone conversations with JTL!

this type of hoax is enabled and perpetuated by the type of person who is "in the know"--the type of person who pretends to know something when they just know someone (or know someone who knows someone, etc.) who has told them that they know something

it's really not all that hard to fool people. people want to be fooled.

nasdijj > leroy in all ways, he doesn't apologize or try to justify, he just spits incoherent venom at his enemies

-- J0hn D., Saturday, June 23, 2007 11:31 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

dunno who he's talking about or why spitting incoherent venom is what i'm looking for in a writer.

being fooled isn't embarrassing but lording it all over those who aren't "in the know" pretty much is.

lol people still read books?

it's funny how this writer's fiction turned out to be fiction

lol people still pretend to be "in the know" on the internets?

so is there like a reverse-backlash "wow! she's just like Andy Kaufman!" cult yet

is JT Leroy the small cat?

I would love it if they introduced 'What is an Author' into evidence.

english public schools had a standard question in their exams about the authorship of shakespeare's plays along those lines before yer foucaults and barthes were even born.

everyone knows francis bacon wrote the plays

or was it marlowe

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1382/551965414_7897451a24_o.gif

this is my favorite thread

omg can't believe jt leroy is guilty of fraud. what is this world coming to.

― Wrinklepaws

it's funny how this writer's fiction turned out to be fiction

― Binjominia, Sunday, June 24, 2007 2:19 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a good thread

https://www.versobooks.com/events/1417-author-the-jt-leroy-story-with-an-introduction-by-juliet-jacques

she's just like Andy Kaufman!" cult yet

― marmotwolof, Sunday, 24 June 2007 18:30 (nine years ago)

I gather the woman behind the whole thing has made a new documentary claiming just that about herself, at least by implication. Also that she recorded everyone's calls without their permission. Figure she's about to be in for a new world of legal hurt.

My girlfriend Kate and I just watched the other documentary that came out a year ago, The Cult of JT Leroy -- choppy at points but definitely a good portrait of a pretty fucked up situation. As much a portrayal of wanting to be part of the in crowd as anything else. As I said to Kate at one point, "Who was starfucking who here?" (Meantime the couple of telling clips from people who live and struggle through Leroy's supposed stomping grounds are telling in turn.)

The various posts at the start of the thread are definitely bemusing.