Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy by Savannah Knoop | Full Audiobook

Retelling the JT LeRoy Narrative

• 🎬 The speaker is retelling the JT LeRoy story for a screenplay titled "Girl Boy Girl," co-written with director Dustin Kelly.
• 🧠 This process involves transposing memories, smoothing over glitches, and tracing emotions to form a clear narrative trajectory.
• 🎭 Observing actors portray JT and his manager Speedy, she notes their distinctive, almost campy gestures on screen.

Crafting JT's Voice

• 📝 A request from Justin (Dustin Kelly) for new JT prose for an upcoming reading causes initial hopelessness.
• 💡 Collaborating with her sweetheart Lee, they recall a specific JT memory about pretending to read a map for his mother's attention.
• ✨ They describe the writing process as catching words like "small fish" and transferring them into different vessels, akin to cleaning a fishbowl.

Questioning Authorship and Identity

• 💬 Laura's past comment, "Just because you played a writer doesn't mean you are one," resurfaces in the speaker's mind.
• 🤔 The speaker ponders if writing is solely in the "saying" or if it can also be found in the "doing" and the act of impersonation.
• 🎭 She views writing fiction as a space of possibility for inhabiting different consciousnesses and exploring identity.