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October 22, 2005

Little Lord Fraud-leroy

Since some of you have been asking how I weigh in on the matter....

I don't want to waste any more of my time or effort, to be honest. But if you haven't read Stephen Beachy's remarkable piece in New York Magazine, here's the link: Fraud

Personally, I strongly suspected "hoax" from the time I interviewed "JT" back in 2000 for a magazine; that suspicion was cemented for me during our brief run-ins at the Toronto and London film festivals earlier this year.

I suppose a lot of people will be giggling about this someday. For now, I'll just say, Don't believe the hype. The world's too crammed with honest, struggling fiction writers, and too needful of serious readers, to buoy this kind of crap. "Deceitful," indeed.

Okay, on to more important and worthwhile matters.

Later this weekend: a report from my ten days in Paris....