Letters to the Editor
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What is the deal with the Waldman-hate?
The people here slamming Waldman for no good reason need to get a grip. A boycott? Have you happened to notice we're about to get a very frightening addition to the Supreme Court? You might want to redirect some of that activist energy toward something that matters. I like Aldman's pieces -- everything I read does not have to be earth-shattering to be worthwhile.
re: JT Leroy...personally I think it's more a story for celebs than anyone else. Most of us did not spend hours -- or even minutes -- talking to the guy/gal. The Frey thing is a bigger deal because of the Oprah push, but honestly, that's much ado about nothing as well. So he was in jail 3 days instead of 3 months...so he liked a girl who died from afar rather than up close. Does that make him a "fraud?" Overblown, overblown. Eggers headed off this sort of criticism by saying up front that you can read it as fiction if you like, but this is the story of his life. How many times have you read a newspaper article where you personally knew the truth of the story and have been appalled at the number of flat-out factual errors that it included? If all SG could find after an exhaustive search were those elements of the story, I'd say Frey did a reasonable job keeping to the "facts."