Comments on: The JT Leroy Saga http://www.jeffwalsh.com/2005/10/28/the-jt-leroy-saga/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:48:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: jonathan http://www.jeffwalsh.com/2005/10/28/the-jt-leroy-saga/#comment-117 jonathan Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:54:21 +0000 http://www.jeffwalsh.com/2005/10/28/the-jt-leroy-saga/#comment-117 The facinating, well, odd thing about JT for me was that I felt all along, from the moment I read Sarah, to finish The Heart.. was that there was someone far beyond the pages, someone far removed from the book, that probably caught butterflies, planted gardens, ate ice cream cones while walking on the beach, and a total opposite to the JT in the book. I considered for a brief period, even going so far as to PLAN it, embarking on a story called "Finding JT" ...just to find and see if he was a mysterious person hiding away, unique, oblique, and mysterious. I dont mind that an author writes fiction because i know it's fiction. But when an author writes something and hawks it to be real-life it rubs the wrong way.. Kind of like a smack in the face to all of the people who can relate to the tragedys in the story itself. "Eh it was all just a lie for me but Im sure it was tough for you, thanks for buying my book xox -JT" and so forth. btw Where the hell IS your book?! Here I am sitting in a posh apartment in Washington D.C. thinking to myself at 2am.. "wait..I haven't seen Jeff's book. It hasn't come up on my Amazon alert. The website is...well..blank. Where is that thing?" The facinating, well, odd thing about JT for me was that I felt all along, from the moment I read Sarah, to finish The Heart.. was that there was someone far beyond the pages, someone far removed from the book, that probably caught butterflies, planted gardens, ate ice cream cones while walking on the beach, and a total opposite to the JT in the book. I considered for a brief period, even going so far as to PLAN it, embarking on a story called “Finding JT” …just to find and see if he was a mysterious person hiding away, unique, oblique, and mysterious. I dont mind that an author writes fiction because i know it’s fiction. But when an author writes something and hawks it to be real-life it rubs the wrong way.. Kind of like a smack in the face to all of the people who can relate to the tragedys in the story itself. “Eh it was all just a lie for me but Im sure it was tough for you, thanks for buying my book xox -JT” and so forth.

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Where the hell IS your book?! Here I am sitting in a posh apartment in Washington D.C. thinking to myself at 2am.. “wait..I haven’t seen Jeff’s book. It hasn’t come up on my Amazon alert. The website is…well..blank. Where is that thing?”

]]> By: G, Smith http://www.jeffwalsh.com/2005/10/28/the-jt-leroy-saga/#comment-118 G, Smith Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:28:56 +0000 http://www.jeffwalsh.com/2005/10/28/the-jt-leroy-saga/#comment-118 A very good post. Thanks for it. A very good post. Thanks for it.

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