http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/09/29/the-literary-equivalent-of-the-sports-worlds-ongoing-doping-scandals/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:52:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/09/29/the-literary-equivalent-of-the-sports-worlds-ongoing-doping-scandals/#comment-120562 Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » Blog Archive » A New Twist on the Fictionalized Memoir Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:55:43 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/09/29/the-literary-equivalent-of-the-sports-worlds-ongoing-doping-scandals/#comment-120562 [...] At least he’s not pretending to be someone else. [...] […] At least he’s not pretending to be someone else. […]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/09/29/the-literary-equivalent-of-the-sports-worlds-ongoing-doping-scandals/#comment-49681 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » You use Billy Corgan as an emotional sounding board, too? Fri, 25 May 2007 16:34:10 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/09/29/the-literary-equivalent-of-the-sports-worlds-ongoing-doping-scandals/#comment-49681 [...] Galleycat’s Ron Hogan gets some face time with Laura Albert, the writer formerly known as JT Leroy. She’s not repentant about the hoax, which at least makes for more interesting reading than if she was contrite. “People always talked about the authenticity of the work,” Laura Albert tells me as a makeup artist fixes her eyes during a photo shoot to create promotional materials for a European TV dcoumentary. “They saw that there was obviously great pain behind it. I was doing it the only way I could. My childhood was hell. I went through a minefield, and I put on camoflauge in order to tell the truth. Billy Corgan got it like that,” she says, snapping her fingers. “He understood it immediately. He didn’t feel duped.” [...] […] Galleycat’s Ron Hogan gets some face time with Laura Albert, the writer formerly known as JT Leroy. She’s not repentant about the hoax, which at least makes for more interesting reading than if she was contrite. “People always talked about the authenticity of the work,” Laura Albert tells me as a makeup artist fixes her eyes during a photo shoot to create promotional materials for a European TV dcoumentary. “They saw that there was obviously great pain behind it. I was doing it the only way I could. My childhood was hell. I went through a minefield, and I put on camoflauge in order to tell the truth. Billy Corgan got it like that,” she says, snapping her fingers. “He understood it immediately. He didn’t feel duped.” […]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/09/29/the-literary-equivalent-of-the-sports-worlds-ongoing-doping-scandals/#comment-324 Keir Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:30:37 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/09/29/the-literary-equivalent-of-the-sports-worlds-ongoing-doping-scandals/#comment-324 Bill Ott suggested this great-sounding novel about the perils of author impersonation: <a href="http://www.booklistonline.com/default.aspx?page=show_product&pid=171131" rel="nofollow">Write to Kill</a>, by Daniel Pennac. Bill Ott suggested this great-sounding novel about the perils of author impersonation: Write to Kill, by Daniel Pennac.

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