Hot lit'ry news! (Exposing the obvious)

Two plainly fake caricature/authors in modern "literature" today are being exposed as, uh, fake.

If you read James Frey's bestselling "A Million Little Pieces," you won't be surprised to learn that much of it now being seriously questioned -- though you might wonder what took so long:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/jamesfrey/0104061jamesfrey1.html

(The Smoking Gun's story also made the New York Times' edition today.)

And if you read much JT LeRoy -- as good as I think some of the work is -- you shouldn't be too shocked to learn that he (or she, or some composite) is not really a young male hooker with gender confusion, down and out in San Francisco ... as LeRoy's over-the-top "autobiographical fiction" is often described as being the work of.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/10/MNGBHGL0F61.DTL

(This story originated at the New York Times, but the S.F. Chronicle one is more interesting, since they interviewed many of the high-profile folks hoodwinked by LeRoy.)

Next, somebody's going to claim Chuck Palahniuk is gay.