Manhattan Offender

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things is (honestly/pleasantly/happily) agitating above all things

First off, a disclaimer:  yes, JT Leroy does not exist.  Surely by now you've read that "JT Leroy" was a hoax by author Laura Albert and husband Geoffrey Knoop and that Knoop's half-sister Savannah portrayed Leroy in public appearances.  I think it's fabulous.  Then again, I'm a 45-year old mother of two from outside Boise, Idaho, disguising my self as a gay man in Manhattan because no one would read my writing if they knew I bought my 'mom jeans' at Wal-Mart.  Okay, not really, but the point is that what matters in story-telling is the story, not the packaging.  Having seen an advanced screening of the movie that premieres in New York and Los Angeles tomorrow, I can look past the "controversy" and readily recommend readers to do the same.

After the jump, a full review and photo gallery.
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What next? Augusten Burroughs is a member of the AFA?

  Well, it turns out that James Frey's memoir is a fiction.  And that JT Leroy is a middle-aged woman in Brooklyn. 

So we're just sitting around waiting to hear that Augusten Burroughs is a member of the American Family Association, Bret Easton Ellis is a retired grandmother from rural Idaho, and Sylvester was just a computer-generated hologram.