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J.T. Leroy ruled a fraud

“J.T. Leroy” was a fraud, according to a jury, and Laura Albert must pay $116,500 to the company that optioned her novel.

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Happy weekend from the road

I left for my Tennessee-Mississippi sojourn sans laptop (R.I.P.), cell phone (forgotten at work), and socks (oops), but I’ve got a camera, and just finished rereading As I Lay Dying, so I should at least get some photos and some Faulkner up. (Did you know the people of Oxford used to call him “Count No-Count“? I didn’t, or had forgotten, . . .

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