Susie Bright weighs in on being conned by "JT Leroy."
My name is Susie Bright and I am not JT Leroy.
I am, however, part of the Leroy Dupe Club. Membership: Countless.
I must be one of the early members. I got the raccoon penis-bone in the mail years ago. I wept over his work when I read his unpublished first stories. Now my face is another color.
For readers, famous author JT Leroy's hoax - that "he" is really a "she," that a middle class 40-year-old woman has been impersonating the life of a lumpen gutter whore child - must make for great reading. Memoir, shmemoir, right?
But if youre an author, an editor, a publisher - or worse, a friend - to someone who bullshit you up one side and down the other, it's not cute. It's not irrelevant. It's a cruel con, straight up, and the whole writers' community suffered for it.
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