Geez Louise, I get too busy to blog anything today, and while I'm not watching, the entire literary world has a little meltdown. First, about the NYT article outing truck-stop-child-prostitute-turned-literary-darling and AIDS sufferer, JT Leroy, as the 40 something sister in law of Leroy's supposed adoptive mother, and then there's the VERY thorough trashing of James Frey and his Oprah best selling "memoirs", as - how shall we say - embellished fiction? Exposed by none other than the Smoking Gun just to add insult to injury.
People are mightily betrayed and dismayed. I mean, poor, poor Susie Bright, her self aggrandizing publicity pal JT Leroy duped her. And let's not forget to mention that although the blogosphere jumped all over these two stories today, that apparently Steven Beachy broke the JT Leroy story in New York magazine back in October of 2005, even though the NYT seemed to promote it like scoop today.
Kind of reminds me of the Milli Vanilli scandal back in the 80's.
