Letters to the Editor

This letter is associated with the following article:
Read other letters about this article
I was conned by JT Leroy
I talked to him on the phone for hours. I even listened to his therapy sessions on tape. And after one particularly weird conversation about his upcoming sex-change operation, I decided he was a fake. So why did I still get sucked in?
By Ayelet Waldman [2006-01-11]

  • Those WERE confrontational words, rr

    Gaping and trumpeted, I mean, but I really didn't expected anyone to get all het up over ignorant,. After going through page after page of Letters to the Editor, I was astonished to see that so many people were wearing their igno--err, their lack of knowledge--like a badge. I mean, anti-intellectualism is fine when you sit down to watch Most Extreme Challenge, but why was there so damned much of it on a site that has employed some pretty fine writers (of about Chabon's middling stature) over the years?

    But you are right that my last post has some disingenuousness in it. I was trying to be clever and I was dishonest about the context of ignorant as a result. And I'm sorry about that that lapse into rhetorical stupidity.

    -- jds
    Thursday, January 12, 2006 02:33 PM
Read other letters about this article

Letters Help