In many ways, the circumstances concerning Nashville-based Timothy Kurek's upcoming book Jesus in Drag are typical of stunts pulled by many young and unproven authors. The aspiring writer engages in some activity, world travel, or way of life for a set period of time (in Kurek’s and several other cases it was one year) during which their temporary lives stand in sharp contrast to his or her normal day-to-day existence. In a genre frequently referred to as "priv lit," authors tend to speak with great authority about subjects they have experienced briefly if at all, and are rarely as "immersed" in whatever world they're studying as they profess to have been.
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