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J.T. LeRoy: The Last Literary Rockstar

Missing Pages: An Investigative Podcast on the Book Publishing Industry

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J.T. Leroy - The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

In the late 90s and early 2000s, J.T. Leroy was believed to be an adolescent drug-abusing transgender prostitute from West Virginia. The writing was marketed as fictional, but pulled from the author's real life. In 2006, articles by Stephen Beechey exposed both the actors who played J.T.-Leroy and the real author of the work,. Laura Albert.

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