Author: JT LeRoy is real inside her
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The woman who penned an "autobiography" under the pseudonym JT LeRoy testified Wednesday that the tale of life as a truck-stop prostitute wasn't real &#151; but that doesn't mean it was a hoax.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie faces, and vividly describes, a defining history of her native Nigeria in her new novel, ÂHalf of a Yellow Sun,Â without having experienced it.
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Reader Tejinder Singh sends us a picture.
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The sexiest woman alive is sitting so close to me that I can read her tattoos. And I would take the time to read them if I were not sitting so close to the sexiest woman alive.
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âIt was my mother who instilled in me a sense that you should understand an individualâs situation,â said Catherine J. Douglass, executive director of inMotion.
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After revealing all of Harry Potter's secrets, the bestselling author, in an exclusive interview, shares a few of her own
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Like many teenage girls, Lee Ann Thill was obsessed with her appearance. A diabetic, she was already suffering from bulimia &#151; forcing herself to throw up to lose weight. But it wasn't enough, and she'd recently put on 20 pounds.
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Undergraduate loins do a lot of stirring in Tom Wolfe's overwritten, uninspiring campus novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons. Wolfe writes of one student athlete, emphasis on athlete: "His loins stirred so, he could feel the tumescence against the fly of his jeans."
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Under the pseudonym of Sarcastic Journalist, Rachel Mosteller wrote this entry on her personal Web log one day last April:
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The surreal and the subtle intrigue South African writer Mary Watson. In exploring those qualities in her fiction, she gives a fresh perspective on the brutality of apartheid.
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If nothing else, Mike Lowell has a sense of humor about the circumstances that brought him to Boston. There are no delusions here. Just a sense of perspective and acceptance and - in his mind - a chance to garner some laughs.
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How does J.K. Rowling feel now that she has finished the seventh and final Harry Potter book? As the author herself confided Tuesday on her Web site, "Charles Dickens put it better than I ever could":
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For years, writer Laura Albert went to strange lengths to hide her identity behind an alter ego named JT LeRoy.
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Reader Jinal Khimasia enjoyed an encounter with the model turned actor.
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Reader Manish Kejriwal shares his memories.
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Sometimes hope wins. Out of all the stories we read this week the one that was most inspiring was that of Jeanna Giese, the 15-year-old Fond du Lac girl who contracted rabies after she was bitten by a bat
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Lily Tuck, this year's winner of the National Book Award for fiction, has a long history of writing about women at a loss in foreign lands. Over the past few weeks, she has been ensnared by one of this country's quirkier cultures: the publishing industry.