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First published at the age of sixteen, J.T. Leroy he has since published articles and stories in Spin, NY Press and several anthologies under the psuedonym Terminator. His original Nerve stories include and Sarah, his first novel (out this past April from Bloomsbury), tells the story of an androgynous young boy who idolizes his mother Sarah, a "lot lizard." or truckstop whore, on the outskirts of the West Virginia wilds. Now twenty-one, Leroy lives in San Francisco.
mprisco: How did the San Francisco reading of Sarah go?
jt_leroy: I actually didn't read anything. But a woman sang a song that was inspired by my book and three other people read — it was great! People pretty much left me alone, which was good, 'cause I was shaking like a cat trying to squeeze out a peach pit.
NERVE: They didn't all want your autograph on a penis bone?
jt_leroy: I sold out of all of them before I had a chance. Gonna have to get out there and castrate me some more raccoons. Got my Tomahawk ready . . .
mprisco: So where do you get the penis bones? Roadkill?
jt_leroy: Yes, all roadkill.
NERVE: Who guts them for you?
jt_leroy: There's an inbred family in Utah that does it. I think they eat the critters too, after they've been sufficiently violated.
hylas: I know where to get the bones in Manhattan, but I think it's better to earn them on a lot.
jt_leroy: It is much better to earn your bone the old-fashioned, dick-sucking, ass-pounded way. Don't tell nobody 'bout buying them bones in Manhattan or I'll have to kick your ass.
mprisco: I'm afraid to get one . . . What will it do to me?
jt_leroy: If you get a penis bone, you'll be turned into a studly girl or guy — and raccoons won't be able to keep their hands off you.
zizek: Can you masturbate with a penis bone?
jt_leroy: Yes you can! It fits very nicely in a vagina or rectal cavity.
albert: Isn't the penis just a muscle?
ally: You mean it doesn't house the male brain as well, Albert?
addues: The penis is one huge blood vessel. Raccoons are the only mammal to have a bone inside as far as I know.
jt_leroy: No, walruses have them too and so do bears. For their size, raccoon bones are the biggest. A bear's penis is as big as a raccoon's.
addues: But they don't give them up as easily.
hylas: I just hope there's a sequel so we can find out what happened to Sarah's mom, Sarah. She seems incredibly tragic. It's not clear how much we are supposed to sympathize . . .
jt_leroy: I mean I don't want you to hate her — she's not a bad person, just fucked up. I sympathize a lot with Sarah, the mom.
toby: I loved the mother character. She reminds me of my mom.
jt_leroy: Me too.
hylas: Can everybody chant: SEQUEL! SEQUEL!
albert: Sarah 2: The Bitch Strikes Back.
jt_leroy: I did start the sequel. All I've ever written about is Sarah, mostly. I think the sequel would be about him and his mother on the road.
NERVE: Who would you choose to play Sarah in a movie, if you could?
jt_leroy: Russell Crowe, the lead in Gladiator. He would make a good Cherry Vanilla, don't you think?
hylas: Right on. He'd make a great twelve-year-old.
zizek: I don't know. I think Joaquin Phoenix.
jt_leroy: If only we could bring back a twelve-year-old River Phoenix. Pet cemetery anybody . . . Oh, gotta grab a call — be right back.
toby: What a little pimp!
jt_leroy: I'm back.
zizek: Who was it?
jt_leroy: It was one of my dates.
zizek: You're still doing that?
jt_leroy: He's an old trick, just on the phone. But if they pay enough, then in person. . . . Why do you think I wrote this book? I just wanted to get more customers.
zizek: Have you ever posed for a porno mag?
jt_leroy: Yes I have. But I was way under age and I'd be surprised if anyone admits to having them. It was when I was in LA and they told me that I thought I could do commercials, for real. I just liked the attention but it was pretty nasty . . . I would never do it again.
mprisco: Well, you'll be a famous actor soon, no doubt.
jt_leroy: Why will I be a famous actor? Have you heard about me being hung like a zebra?
mprisco: Well, because, you're good lookin' (as far as I can tell from those two pictures which are the only ones I've seen!) and because you're hung like a zebra.
jt_leroy: But I can't act.
zizek: If you can write you can act.
toby: Yeah, JT can't even read his work in front of an audience — which is why he's pimping Dennis Cooper and Mary Gaitskill!
zizek: Mary loves it.
jt_leroy: I love Mary and I love Dennis.
toby: I'm shy too . . . I just wish I could pull off getting such big substitutes!
jt_leroy: You can, you just gotta suck some better dick and pussy, Toby.
zizek: Who would you do from the daytime Emmys?
jt_leroy: Roseanne Barr, and I'm not being sarcastic.
rubythroat: When is your birthday? I would love to do your natal chart sometime.
jt_leroy: Thank you, I've never been able to find out when I was born. My mother had me when she was fourteen, and she was never quite sure when that was. I should try to find my birth certificate.
mprisco: Do you know what state you were born? Hospital? You should be able to get a birth certificate if you know that.
jt_leroy: I wasn't born in a hospital, I was born at home. I was removed from my mother and put into foster care a couple days after I was born. I think I may have been born in Mississippi.
mprisco: JT, I can be your mother.
jt_leroy: Will you be my mother? I need one.
albert: JT, will you be my lover?
zizek: I want JT to be my lover.
jt_leroy: Now boys don't fight, there's enough of me to go around . . . especially for the right dollar amount.
toblerone: How's the website www.jtleroy.com and your designer?
jt_leroy: The website is great. And the designer is kick ass — literally — he kicks my ass all the time and I love it.
zizek: What do you think about sex, JT?
jt_leroy: Sex is nice. I just don't have any.
albert: JT, how can you not be having sex — you are like so hot. Ohmigod, the Backstreet Boys RULE!!!
rubythroat: What's your biggest fantasy, JT?
jt_leroy: To be a beautiful girl. And have sex with Kevin Spacey. Though I guess being a girl would be a hindrance to having sex with Kevin Spacey.
toby: Yeah, well, not the way Spacey tells it.
rubythroat: JT, you are a beautiful girl! More beautiful than ME!
jt_leroy: I've got a pair of big scissors sitting between my legs — should I do it?
toby: Yep.
zizek: Do it.
rubythroat: But everyone needs a cock.
youp: Save it for the dog.
jt_leroy: AAAAAUGGGH! OUUUCH! [blood squirting madly everywhere] . . . That was the biggest goddamn hangnail I ever took off.
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