Writing?

You mean typing?

animalcracker

Sigerson Holmes, Part Deux, you are dead to me now. Dead. The writing in the JT Leroy books was a shitty mash-up of Dennis Cooper and S.E. Hinton, with a little Dorothy Allison thrown in.

VenusCloacina

"I'm hopeless at this stuff," Laura Albert had been saying as she stood in her apartment on a recent morning, placing objects into - then removing them from - a bag."

Huh?

Nice to start with a quote...we all do it...but what's with the past perfect progressive 'had been saying'? Why? The tense isn't used again. Even worse, the split/hypen at the end puts a bizarre empahsis on the words "a bag" for the reader. Again, why? A bag? What else would she be putting "the objects" into, a shoebox? An armoire? A vacuous hole? If the point is to show that Albert is indecisive and doesn't know how to pack, and I believe that is the point, why structure the sentence around where her objects are going as opposed to how her objects are getting there? Oh, and never mind that "the reporter" never tells us WHAT the objects are. How can he just say "objects" and not say what they are? This is illegal!

I could go on, but I've wasted enough time already. The Times offers its readers a double whammy...first it had the nerve to feature a piece on Laura Albert, a proven fraud, and second, it's an article written with all the basic writing skills and journalistic prowess of a love child between Jayson Blair and Jerri Blank.

zach_sire

And I'm not even a shamed author!

demetria23

Why does Alan Feuer insist on referring to himself throughout the article as "reporter"? Why did he write a memoir in the third person? (Does he know how to use the first person?)

Why did he need to drive from San Francisco to L.A. to interview her? Couldn't he just meet her in L.A.?

And most importantly: What "narcolepsy pill" did she take?

I needed one after reading this article.

singoutlouise

Do you think she wept because the 500 wasn't enough?

Rebellitor

francisx

nogoggles

the world doesn't feel sorry for you when you wrote a book about a fake semi-autobiographical story about yourself as a fake author, then the same fake story gets opted to be a major motion picture and had well-known actors cast in the roles.

now you cry bankruptcy, but you still have hired help and a 'walk up' in san fran?

bitch, please.
sit down and shut the hell up.

rednrowdy

Hell, if she's really broke, she'd make like MC Hammer and move to Tracy.

pippitypup

IBentMyWookie

hhpeterson13

IBentMyWookie

And the JT Leroy books are turgid. More evidence that our country is willing to eat entire pieces of shit whole if you line them with tragedy.

sexbot

hhpeterson13

artynimue1

Carol Gardens

@Sigerson Holmes, Part Duex: You must be kidding. I thought Sarah was pitiful. Not even good bad.

tammyfey

LolCait

GorgeousGeorge

Some of My Best Friends Are People

Sigerson

Hey, Laura! Make a sex tape with James Frey if you're so broke. Then leak it to Bookslut. America is defined by its willingness to pay good money to see people's dignity burst into flames, so you should really take advantage of that, or, as my mother would say, you're not that broke.

sexbot

dado

Evidently asking for change is considered a high insult in Crazyville -- akin to pronouncing a word incorrectly in China, failing to show proper respect to your business associates in Japan, or refusing local insurance offers in Sicily.

GorgeousGeorge

KarenUhOh

snobber

Oh Laura, when will the lies end?!

IBentMyWookie

MisterHippity