My life as a literary scam artist: how JT Leroy seduced the world without actually existing

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My life as a literary scam artist: how JT Leroy seduced the world without actually existing
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I always think of this story as like a BDSM fairytale gone wrong,” says Savannah Knoop, a 38-year-old artist from San Francisco.

I always think of this story as like a BDSM fairytale gone wrong,” says Savannah Knoop, a 38-year-old artist from San Francisco. This description - of a subordinate forgetting the rules of the game and expecting their master to treat them with more respect - is as good a description as any for a story so hard to categorise.

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