Sarah
A Novel

The Correspondents, #1 Dear J T Leroy, I am your biggest fandangle. I love how you wrote those two books about child abuse under a fake name. I love how you paid a boring Brooklyn writer to pretend to be you to make the shitty shit more real. When I was a child I too hung around trailer park hookers a......more

I have blogged about the whole J.T. Leroy/Savannah Knoop/Laura Albert controversy (read: literary hoax) recently and in the past. I find much of the chicanerie and lying resorted to by Albert and Knoop (to advance Albert's publishing agenda) to have been grossly offensive. A particularly awful compo......more

Strange. Raw. Vulnerable. A lot different than I remember from reading it 20 years ago.......more

Dear J.T. LeRoy, Here are my thoughts on Sarah: Your protagonist starts out as Cherry Vanilla. In the beginning she is a child probably around 10 or so I would think. She is desperate for affection and has abandonment issues because of Sarah being so inconsistent. She thinks if she becomes more like S......more

When this book first came out, everyone was raving about it. It was touted as the true story of a boy whose mother was a truck stop hooker and drug addict, who groomed him to work in the "family business" at a very young age. It's haunting and beautifully written. Once you read it, you can't forget......more