J.T. Leroy is the pseudonym of an aging lesbian. Whenever a public appearance or photo op is needed, publicists and agents prance out some innocuous Terry Richardson/Ryan McGinley hard-on-in-the-tight-jeans fodder.

J.T. Leroy edits the Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005 collection. I got the ARC in the mail. Hope you like lots of “my momma woulda said” heavy-handed hill country nonsense used as a tool to describe music. Drop it, pal, you wear the affectation like a giant foam #1 hand. This is where music criticism is going, and unsurprisingly, there is an essay by Dave Eggers.