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^ Read # Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy by Savannah Knoop Ð eBook or Kindle ePUB. Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy Strange, strange story Because I live in the very area where the fictitious author of tales of abuse and child prostitition, "JT LeRoy", was supposed to have arrived in to become a street hustler & author, and because the unmasking of LeRoy as Laura Albert was a big story in my town, I was so excited to get the behind-the-scenes story. Unfortunately, I was left wanting more information about Laura Albert, but I guess that's fair since the focus is on Savannah Knoop, the public impe. Simply fasci
| Title | : | Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (763 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1583228519 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
Strange, strange story Because I live in the very area where the fictitious author of tales of abuse and child prostitition, "JT LeRoy", was supposed to have arrived in to become a street hustler & author, and because the unmasking of LeRoy as Laura Albert was a big story in my town, I was so excited to get the behind-the-scenes story. Unfortunately, I was left wanting more information about Laura Albert, but I guess that's fair since the focus is on Savannah Knoop, the public impe. Simply fascinating. Jo D. Savannah Knoop's well written account of her experience as the body [or wig and glasses] of J. T. LeRoy, the famed but fictitious truckstop-boy-turned-author, is rivetting even if you've never read a LeRoy book or seen the movie. Simply put, the experience of seeing how people react to her when they think she's not just a he but also a victim and a celebrity is a fascinating exposure of the projections people make and of celebrity culture. Knoop captures both. The Story Behind The Face B.V. When the story broke that JT Leroy didn't exist in the way he'd been said to exist, a lot of people on the periphery of this phenomena wanted to know more. Savannah Knoop provides not a typical insider's bitter wail but rather a heartfelt and clear-eyed tale of how the public face of a hip and cool author was created and thrived for a while. She's a good writer and is able to capture some of the manic, slap-dash nature of the enterprise that was JT Leroy and
Knoop began designing clothing six years ago and formed a clothing company under the name of Tinc. She lives in San Francisco. SAVANNAH KNOOP began to lead a double life in 1999 at the age of eighteen, when her sister-in-law asked her to be the face of JT LeRoy, author of the internationally acclaimed novels Sarah and The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things. Their true identities were revealed in 2006.
A media frenzy ensued as JT’s fans, mentors, and readers came to terms with the fact that the gay-male-ex-truck-stop-prostitute-turned literary-wunderkind was really a girl from San Francisco, whose sister-in-law wrote the books.Girl Boy Girl is the story of how Savannah Knoop led this bizarre double life for six years, trading a precarious existence as a college dropout for a life in which she was embraced by celebrities and artists—Carrie Fisher, Courtney Love, Mary Ellen Mark, Winona Ryder, Asia Argento, Sharon Olds, Gus Van Sant, Mike Pitt, Calvin Klein, and Shirley Manson, to name a few—and traveled the world. Her love affair with Asia Argento is particularly wrenching, as they embark on an intimate relationship that causes more alienation than closeness.As Savannah and Laura struggle over control of the JT character, Savannah realizes the limits of the game - - and inadvertently finds herself through the adventure of being someone else.. In January 2006, the New York Times unmasked Savannah Knoop as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy. Telling her side of the story for the first time, Savannah reveals how being perceived as a boy gave her a sense of confidence and entitlement she never had before. The JT LeRoy scandal is a story of our times
He had access to a world so beyond what I thought could be my own.” The game ran for seven years, ending in a 2006 public revelation/scandal. --Whitney Scott . Eventually, portraying JT became Savannah’s “exciting reprieve from real life. From Booklist When is an HIV-positive, transgender, ex-truck-stop-prostitute turned pseudo-celebrity novelist none of the above? When the faux man of letters is JT Leroy, revealed to be erstwhile community-college coed Savannah Knoop, who masqueraded as her middle-aged sister-in-law Laura’s nom de plume. “The whole experience had been a contagious lie,” quoth Savannah, “that spread and obstructed what I wanted my life to be.” What with snapshots and celebrity photos, her confession’s a breezy, fast, oddly likable read for fans of bizarre deceit or, perhaps,
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