Fake Writers Are the New Black
Topic: National News
Are you a struggling writer desperate to find a job before your car is repoed and you really ARE living on the street like a character in your book? Well, adopt a fake name or story.
After the James Frey fracas and ensuing Oprah enragement that followed, JT LeRoy hit peak popularity. A 25-year-old male hooker and addict, JT sucked in a nation with another drug-laden tale of misunderstood youth and unreached potential.
Are you interested now? Good.
JT LeRoy is fake too.
Laura Albert has been outed as the creator of LeRoy, who she supposedly rescued from the street. Now it appears that Albert's ex-lover and ex-lover's sister were involved as well, even going so far as to call the Associated Press to claim that LeRoy was real.
Well, literary backlash is a bitch. While LeRoy's books might not have made the best seller list, one is currently being made into a movie and all have sold rather handsomely. Not Harry Potter handsome, mind you, but pretty handsome. Like, maybe Curious George handsome.
So what's the lesson here? James Andresen is ceasing to exist as the author of this site. Tomorrow, editing duties will be taken over by Andy Delacroix, a nineteen-year-old ex-stripper who used to rub heroin in between his toes before performing at the local Denny's. That should make us some money.
MSNBC
Posted by James
at 10:27 AM CST