Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy

Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy

by Savannah Knoop
Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy

Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy

by Savannah Knoop

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Overview

When Savannah Knoop was unmasked as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy in 2005, one of the biggest literary hoaxes of the modern era was revealed. Girl Boy Girl tells the story of how a young, queer college drop out came to portray the literary wunderkind JT LeRoy, a persona created by Knoop's sister-in-law. For six years, Knoop led a secret double life, traveling through the looking glass of celebrity to find liberation and alienation in equal measures. Knoop's entanglement with JT and his creator was a game played at the very limits of self-expression, one that changed Knoop's sense of self forever. This edition includes a new foreword by the author reflecting on the continued life of the JT LeRoy story in the "post-truth" era.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781609808419
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 04/23/2019
Edition description: Media Tie-in
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Savannah Knoop is a New York-based artist, writer, and filmmaker who has performed and exhibited at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. They adapted their memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy into a feature-length film, co-written and directed by Justin Kelly, and starring Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jim Sturgess, and Diane Kruger. Girl Boy Girl is their first book.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 2019 edition vii

The Ritz 3

Laura 19

Cherry Vanilla 43

Haute Cuisine 57

Copacabana 87

Rome 105

Tennessee 135

Tine 155

Cannes 169

Tokyo 187

Hollywood 197

Girl Boy Girl 211

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