will the real jt leroy please stand up?
New York Magazine has a long article on the possible identity or identities of the writer known as JT Leroy. And to find out that much of the drama is playing out blocks from my flat on Larkin Street! It makes me want to put on a disguise and start doing detective work myself. Maybe if I stake out the block between here and Polk I'll spot him. I did get an email from a "JT Leroy" once asking if he could use a quote from my blog. I responded and then he never wrote back again. My quote did appear on his webpage later though. Was it really JT? The suspense!
I'm almost inspired to make up a story about myself, maybe like as a kid who grew up in the countryside of Mississippi, listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground every day after coming home from high school, dreaming of a life in New York away from the endless soybean fields and scary racist farmers. Oh wait, but that's all true...
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Out of curiosity, I found your quote and the page of JT LeRoy's on which it appears. If you investigate, keep us posted.
Posted by: Michael M. | October 12, 2005 1:47 PM
Yes, for sure, will definitely reveal whatever I find out... It's a good mystery!
Posted by: roddy | October 12, 2005 6:51 PM