Pretty much no-one in news conference this morning had heard of JT Leroy, a former street hustler on track to self-destructive meltdwn who turned cult novelist with a coterie of A list celebrity patrons. Where have we been?
One of his short story collections has even become a film that screened last year in Cannes (on the periphery of the main festival), starring Peter Fonda and including cameos by Winona Ryder and Marilyn Manson
Luckily, it turns out our literary blinkers are going to be removed by next week's Observer Magazine. In glorious technicolour as usual.
The blog meanwhile frantically googled itself out of complete ignorance to unearth a slightly old profile from the Village Voice.
Updated 8 March: Now you can read the Observer Magazine piece. Here it is.
