San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Girl Boy Girl How I Became JT LeRoy By Savannah Knoop Seven Stories Press; 256 pages; $17.95 It's one thing to lie and cheat. It's another thing to lie and cheat, and aim to profit further from the deception. From 1999 to 2005, Laura Albert, Geoffrey Knoop...
New Books from Seven Stories Press (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
The mysterious girl who led a double life for six years as celebrated author JT LeRoy.
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
In this week's Village Voice Music Section , Rob Harvilla looks on as Built to Spill revive 1997's "get all split on some green and contemplate the cosmos" sad-rock epic Perfect From Now On . Ben Detrick joins T.I. in saying so long to the gun show with the rapper's new Paper Trail . Don Allred revisits the curt, cosmic populism of Creedence Clearwater Revival . Annie Fischer catches up with A-Trak...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
When alleged former West Virginian truck stop hustler/HIV positive transgender male writer JTLeroy was discovered to be a hoax, the fictional construct of a San Francisco scribe named Laura Albert, I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Gawker (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
The creation of fake West Virginian teen hustler and author-savant JT Leroy took three people. One can see the deception as a selfish hoax or a grand experiment in fame—the idea of JT exposed a...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Girlbomb author Janice Erlbaum learns that she may have been group-home roommates with Laura Albert, aka JT Leroy.
Gawker (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
The Times vetted the hell out of Kate Brennan, who's written In His Sights, "one of the first full-length memoirs of a stalking victim." In the wake of fake memoirists—JT Leroy, James Frey, and...
kenneth in the (212) (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Some Nerve: Maybe Laura Albert really is JT LeRoy -- or at least some man . How else do you explain the huge set of balls she obviously has to be criticizing the young woman she hired to play the truckstop hooker turned literary darling in person? In "Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy," Savannah Knoop, 27, will tell the story of the charade in which she wore a blond wig and sunglasses to hobnob...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Photo: Getty Images, WireImage Laura Albert, the real writer who published books under the adopted fake persona of drug-addicted teen prostitute JT LeRoy, is outraged today over the upcoming book from Savannah Knoop, the actress she hired to play LeRoy in public appearances. In Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy , Knoop will tell the story of how she wore a wig and sunglasses, pretended to be a...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Laura Albert was successfully sued for fraud for pretending to be a drug-addicted teen in books she wrote under the assumed name and gender of JT Leroy, so of course she's in an excellent position to...
The Politicker (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
LOS ANGELES, May 30—Ira Silverberg had not seen his former client Laura Albert in almost a year. The last time was in a Manhattan courtroom, when Ms. Albert stood trial for pretending to be a young man with H.I.V. named J.T. Leroy. She wrote books under this name, and had Mr. Silverberg, a literary agent, sell them to publishers without telling him who she really was. When Mr. Silverberg found out,...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Pardon, but have you noticed who's in the music section this week? It's kind of ridiculous: Charles Mudede, Laura Albert/JT Leroy, Miranda July, Chris Weeg, Paul Constant, Marya Sea Kaminski, Grant Cogswell, Gary Shteyngart, Donte Parks, Stephen Elliot, Brangien Davis, Brendan Kiley, and Sherman Alexie Damn! And what the hell are they all doing here? Making out to Portishead . From Mudede's introduction:...
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
A reassuring aside in Simon Dumenco's piece> about how even he was taken in by a memulist (by now, there should be a single word for memoirist-fabulist): LeRoy, who lived in San Francisco, had a way of insinuating himself into the lives of the writers, editors and celebrities in his ever-expanding circle, and before long he started calling me at odd hours in New York to engage me in endless therapy...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
The NYT's Mokoto Rich helpfully rounds up all the offenders in the fake-memoir trend. Valley Girl gang-pretender Margaret Setzer, James Frey, and Laura Albert (aka JT Leroy) are only the tip of the...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
FishbowlLA: Willie Macc Hit Us Like a Brick FishbowlNY: Kurt Andersen Is the Li'l Lebowsky FishbowlDC: National Journalism Awards Announced TVNewser: After Kaplan, Ben Sherwood? GalleyCat: JT Leroy's Legacy Blown Out of Proportion? UnBeige: Eric Mongeon Signs on for Science...
