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Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re thinking about duplicity, about scam artists and liars, about cheating in all forms. Read on for Nathaniel Rich\u2019s 2006 interview with Laura Albert<\/a>, the woman behind the JT LeRoy hoax; Uzodinma Iweala\u2019s short story \u201cSpeak No Evil<\/a>\u201d; and Alan Davies\u2019s poem \u201cLies<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Being JT LeRoy<\/a>
\nBy Nathaniel Rich
\nIssue no. 178 (Fall 2006)<\/em><\/p>\n

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INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

When you were writing, did you feel JT take over in the same way as when you were talking? Did you feel that JT was writing?<\/p>\n

ALBERT<\/p>\n

No, when I wrote I felt more like it was me trying to craft a story. He\u2019d tell the story and I was the secretary who would take it down and say, OK, thank you, now I\u2019m going to try to turn it into craft. But while I wouldn\u2019t sit there and think of myself as JT, as long as I was writing I didn\u2019t have to be Laura either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Speak No Evil<\/a>
\nBy Uzodinma Iweala
\nIssue no. 181 (Summer 2007)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDoes she love you?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

He stroked my back with his fingertips right from the neck down to where it really tickles. Then he moved away from me and coughed. \u201cWell. She loves the me she knows. And that\u2019s all she needs to love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen why you cheating on her if you love her?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause. Look you\u2019ll find this out when you get older. Love is only half honesty. The rest is shit made up to make the other person feel good.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Lies<\/a>
\nBy Alan Davies
\nIssue no. 86 (Winter 1982)<\/em><\/p>\n

Truth is lies<\/strong> that have hardened.
\nThis should be obvious from the fact that the obverse is also correct. The same obviousness obtains for correctness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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