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Sierra Feldner-Shaw

Non-Fiction: Little Lies and Literati

In late 2005, the world learned that JT LeRoy—the former teenage prostitute who as a young transgendered novelist living in San Francisco had transformed himself into a minor celebrity and “darling of the avant-garde”—was actually a forty-year-old woman named Laura Albert.

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The Brooklyn Rail

SEPT 2023

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