Playing Dress-Up
My how people in the literary world love to tell torrid tales. This whole James Frey ordeal is really ridiculous. I’m still questioning where the editor and publisher were during this entire affair. And to add to the JT Leroy hoax, the real JT Leroy (aka Laura Albert) is taking up more space in the New York Times. Her partner and father of her son has now come forward and revealed that he just couldn't go on with the sham anymore:
Geoffrey Knoop, Ms. Albert's partner for the last 16 years, said in a telephone interview on Saturday evening that he had seen Ms. Albert write the books of JT Leroy in their San Francisco apartment. He added that for much of the last decade, he had been present when Ms. Albert conducted telephone conversations as JT Leroy with unwitting editors, writers and celebrities, using the voice of a young man with a West Virginia accent. Ms. Albert, 40, is originally from Brooklyn.
"The jig is up," said Mr. Knoop, 39, a rock musician. "I do want to apologize to people who were hurt," he added. "It got to a level I didn't expect."
Why do the liars turn themselves into the victims?
