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I called Ian Parker's excellent profile "delectable" earlier, but I also found it upsetting. I find stories about grifters both magnetic and nauseating. Lies make me dizzy, which is (a small but real) part of why the Trump era is so difficult.
This is such a big era for public shaming, a big era for brazen hoaxes, too. It's part of why I loved Can You Ever Forgive Me? so much: I love any art that helps me understand a liar without letting them off the hook.
The story also reminded me of JT Leroy, of course. I edited Stephen Beachy's expose on that for NYMag & it drives me crazy when people glamourize what Laura Albert did as some subversive prank. It's easy to fool people who trust you—that's not some brave act, it's cruel and easy.
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