[wpspoiler name=”WRITINGS BY LAURA”]
“Jo-Jo,” a new story by Laura, appears on FiveChapters.com.
Laura reflects on the powerful experience of speaking at The Moth.
Laura recalls the lessons she learned from the late Lou Reed.
Laura comes to new insights about her native Brooklyn in “New York’s Unseen Sights.”
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[wpspoiler name=”LAURA ON FILM, TV, & THEATER”]
Filmmaker Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War) speaks to Laura about Tabloid.
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[wpspoiler name=”INTERVIEWS BY LAURA”]
Laura interviews Costume National founder Ennio Capasa.
“Elephant Woman” meets “Elephant Man.”
Filmmaker Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War) speaks to Laura about Tabloid.
Novelist Adam Langer tells Laura about his latest thriller, The Salinger Contract.
Catherine Burns, Artistic Director of the story-telling series The Moth, tells her story to Laura.
Glass Magazine features Laura’s interview with creative polyglot Laurie Lynn Stark.
Freud is analyzed by Laura and Brenda Webster, author of The Vienna Triangle.
Laura interviews fashion designer Linda Loudermilk for Diane Pernet’s A Shaded View On Fashion.
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[wpspoiler name=”ABOUT LAURA”]
David Sedaris was asked what he’s reading: “Anything by JT LeRoy.”
Nicole V. Gagné discusses the importance of being JT LeRoy.
Nicole V. Gagné compares JT to Romain Gary’s alter-ego Émile Ajar.
index A-Z, “the bible of indie culture,” celebrates JT as the lead in two of its 26 chapters.
Novelist Brenda Webster offers a heartfelt response to Laura’s story of JT LeRoy on The Moth.
JT walks the runway, and the SF Chronicle is there!
Antony Hegarty (Antony and the Johnsons) is compared to JT by New York Magazine.
Gene Dante is glad to say that he’s not over JT LeRoy.
Grant Faulkner writes about Laura and JT as the voice of “ecstatic truth.”
Peter Getty stands up for Laura and JT.
Peter Getty asks us, “What’s in a name?”
Photographer Dan Nicoletta on his influences: “In writing it’s Laura Albert, aka JT LeRoy.”
Author Timothy Wang posts about his meeting with Laura.
Laura helps launch Wells Tower’s new book with the managing editor and publisher of McSweeney’s.
Laura serves as a judge at the Sapporo International Short Film Festival.
The New Yorker promotes Laura’s new fiction.
Avenue A skinhead-turned-notorious-author Laura Albert (aka JT LeRoy, aka “Literary Outlaw”).
Can we love someone who does not exist? Here’s Laura’s connection to Manti Te’o.
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[wpspoiler name=”THE TRIAL”]
“We have no right to quarrel with an artist for the conditions under which he chooses to present his work.” — Oscar Wilde
The Authors Guild takes a stand for Laura’s legal rights as an artist.
Stephen Burt at slate.com asks, “Is the JT LeRoy scandal what you think it is?”
Laura celebrates the 2009 settlement of the Antidote suit with Jonathan Lethem and Heidi Julavits.
Ron Hogan at mediabstro.com denounces the 2007 court decision against Laura.
Levi Asher wonders if Mary Ann Evans would be sued today for writing her novels as George Eliot.
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[wpspoiler name=”INTERVIEWS WITH LAURA”]
The breakthrough interview Laura gave to The Paris Review.
Lastblog turns to Laura for answers about the creative process, art, fashion, and JT LeRoy.
Jowita Bydlowska interviews Laura for Random House’s magazine.
Laura returns to her roots for the Brooklyn Book Festival.
The LGBT organization dot429 has a Q&A with Laura.
Laura is interviewed on The Deb Colitti Show.
The San Francisco Chronicle tries to catch up with Laura.
RU Sirius at 10zenmonkeys.com speaks with Laura.
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[wpspoiler name=”FASHION”]
Laura interviews Costume National founder Ennio Capasa.
When Laura met Christian Lacroix.
Acclaimed photographer Steven Klein reveals his fetish for Laura…
JT walks the runway, and the SF Chronicle tells all —
— and you can see Rain Dove walking as JT here!
Lastblog turns to Laura for answers about the creative process, art, fashion, and JT LeRoy.
Laura will be on the jury of the upcoming ASVOFF FETISH Competition.
Diane Pernet: “Laura was the first person I asked be on the ASVOFF 6 jury.”
Laura is happy to sing her favorite blues — Iron Army Jeans.
Jewelry designer Betony Vernon celebrates her new book, The Boudoir Bible, with Laura and friends.
Laura interviews fashion designer Linda Loudermilk for Diane Pernet’s A Shaded View On Fashion.
We really like the that in this This Or That that was posted by Diane Pernet.
[wpspoiler name=”MUSIC”]
GARBAGE
Shirley Manson’s classic celebration of JT, “Cherry Lips”:
Shirley sings of Speedie and JT in the title track of Garbage’s album, “Bleed Like Me”:
BAT FOR LASHES
From their first album, Fur and Gold: Natasha Kahn shares in the vision of JT’s novel with her song “Sarah”:
From Bat For Lashes’ latest album, The Haunted Man: the lead single “Laura”:
SUE DENIM
Sue Denim of Robots In Disguise releases her first solo album And The Unicorn with the song “For JT & Carson & Emli”:
LAURA
Laura singing “Freebird” in Dothraki or fake Hebrew (your choice):
LAURA WITH THE SIZE QUEENS
Joining the band on their album The Size Queens III is Laura as Miss Liz in “Hot Frizz”:
THISTLE LLC
Laura sings with Thistle LLC on the compilation album The Late Great Daniel Johnston, covering Johnston’s “Love Not Dead”:
JT’S LINER NOTES
These artists had JT write the liner notes for their albums:
BILLY CORGAN & ZWAN: Mary Star of the Sea
LIZ PHAIR: Liz Phair
BRYAN ADAMS: Room Service
NANCY SINATRA: Nancy Sinatra
ASH: Meltdown
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[wpspoiler name=”ART”]
Art About Laura and JT:
Robert Wilson’s VOOM Portraits premiere in New York with Laura.
Irish photographer Amy Hanrahan names her collection after The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things.
JT-inspired fan art from deviantart.com.
Laura-inspired fan art from deviantart.com.
“Cherry Lips & Golden Curls” from Paula in Brazil.
Art by Jasmin Lim:
Artist Jasmin Lim uses photography, sculpture, and installations to examine the plasticity of perception.
You can read more about her work here…
…and visit her website here.
“I worked with Laura and witnessed the spectrum of media reactions to JT LeRoy/Laura Albert, which was often oversimplified and reactionary. For this exhibition [‘Another Side,’ exploring the artist and the alter-ego, at The Re Institute in Millerton, N.Y.], I contributed a sculptural response to the socio-cultural phenomenon of responding to ambiguity with intolerance.”
“For Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco, I created ‘Untitled (Persona Case Study),’ a window installation in which texts and images directly connected to Laura and JT are juxtaposed with other social commentaries on the construction of identity and the nature of truth. I compare Laura’s artistic gesture to a variable in a complex and unresolved algorithm.”
Here’s a video of Jasmin and Laura discussing ‘Untitled (Persona Case Study)’ with moderator Chuck Mobley (director of SF Camerawork) at ATA.
R.U. Sirius writes about Laura’s work and Jasmin’s installation here.
This article on Jasmin’s ‘Untitled (Persona Case Study)’ also has a nifty picture of her at work in the window.
This thoughtful review of Jasmin’s exhibition at the artist-run project space 2nd floor projects has some beautiful reproductions of her recent work.
Jasmin gives an interview to writer Matt Runkle about ‘Untitled (Persona Case Study).’
Jasmin’s Q&A with Paul Handler has a sweet call-out for Laura.
In this radio broadcast, Laura, Jasmin, and writer Grant Faulkner speak with Steven James, the Academy Award-winning director of Hoop Dreams and The Interrupters and with activist and Interrupters star Ameena Matthews.
People interested in obtaining Jasmin Lim’s artwork can contact her at studio@jasminlim.com.
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[wpspoiler name=”FOOD”]
Join Laura in search of her Roots: San Francisco’s Roots Restaurant.
Keep that pinky extended! It’s tea time with Laura at Lady Mendl’s Tea Salon in New York.
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[wpspoiler name=”FOREIGN-LANGUAGE PRESS”]
BRAZIL
Globo.com’s audio report on Laura’s first visit to Brazil.
Santiago Nazarian’s interview with Laura, “A descoberta do autor personagem.”
Geração Editorial writes about publishing Laura’s books in Brazil.
Laura is interviewed by her Brazilian publisher.
Laura also speaks with Geração Editorial here.
A look at Globo.com’s interest in Laura and JT.
Praise for JT, Um Conto de Fadas Punk.
FRANCE
Double explores the enduring fashion and literary relevancy of the creation of JT.
Rock N Rolla’s amazing photoshoot and mini-interview with Laura.
Praise for Sarah from Technikart.
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[wpspoiler name=”BY JT”]
David Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) is interviewed by JT for The Face.
Asia Argento talks to JT about adapting The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things into a film.
JT goes to Disneyland Paris for The New York Times: “Uncle Walt, Parlez-Vous Français?”
JT interviews filmmaker Paul Devlin about his documentary Power Trip.
JT’s lyrics to “Grounded” — in English and Slovak!
JT’S LINER NOTES
These artists had JT write the liner notes for their albums:
BILLY CORGAN & ZWAN: Mary Star of the Sea
LIZ PHAIR: Liz Phair
BRYAN ADAMS: Room Service
NANCY SINATRA: Nancy Sinatra
ASH: Meltdown
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[wpspoiler name=”JT READING GUIDE”]
The JT LeRoy books have been taught at many universities….
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[wpspoiler name=”SOCIAL MEDIA”]
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[wpspoiler name=”RECOMMENDED LISTENING”]
RECOMMENDED LISTENING
Antony and the Johnsons
Asia Argento
Asia Argento vs. Antipop Archigram & Friends
Bat for Lashes
Billy Corgan
with The Smashing Pumpkins
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
with Zwan
Crime
Murder by Guitar, 1976-1980: The Complete Studio Recordings
Sue Denim
Nicole V. Gagné
Garbage
Lou Reed
Berlin: Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse
with John Cale
with Metallica
with The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground Live 1969, vol. 1
The Velvet Underground Live 1969, vol. 2
David Sedaris
Live for Your Listening Pleasure
A Very Special David Sedaris Christmas
Gus Van Sant
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[wpspoiler name=”RECOMMENDED READING”]
RECOMMENDED READING
Mandy Aftel
Death of a Rolling Stone: The Brian Jones Story
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent
Scents and Sensibilities: Creating Solid Perfumes for Well-Being
The Story of Your Life: Becoming the Author of Your Experience
Levi Asher
Action Poetry: Literary Tribes for the Internet Age
Beats In Time: A Literary Generation’s Legacy
The Cards I’m Playing: Poker and Postmodern Literature
Chiaroscuro: Assorted Literary Essays
Why Ayn Rand Is Wrong (and Why It Matters)
Jo Ann Beard
Steven Blush
American Hardcore: A Tribal History (2nd edition)
Catherine Burns and The Moth
Stephen Burt
Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence
Shot Clocks: Poems and an Essay for the WNBA
Billy Corgan
Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
It Is Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings
Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers
Nathan Englander
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Nicole V. Gagné
Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music
Antony Hegarty
Ron Hogan
The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane! American Films of the 1970s
index magazine
Steven Klein
Madonna and Steven Klein: X-STaTIC PRO-CeSS
Christian Lacroix
Christian Lacroix and the Tale of Sleeping Beauty: A Fashion Fairy Tale Memoir
Christian Lacroix: Universe of Fashion
Pieces of a Pattern: Lacroix by Lacroix
Adam Langer
The Film Festival Guide: For Filmmakers, Film Buffs, and Industry Professionals
Taiyo Matsumoto/Michael Arias
David Milch
Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hills
True Blue: The Real Stories Behind “NYPD Blue”
Errol Morris
Believing Is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography)
Nonfiction: Photographs by Nubar Alexanian from the Film Sets of Errol Morris
A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
Daniel Nicoletta
with Adrian Brooks
Flights of Angels: My Life with the Angels of Light
with Harvey Milk
Lou Reed
Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
Nathaniel Rich
David Sedaris
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Kenneth Sherman
The Well: New and Selected Poems
Morgan Spurlock
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
Supersized: Strange Tales from a Fast-Food Culture
John Strausbaugh
Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture
E: Reflections on the Birth of the Elvis Faith
Rock Till You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia
Sissy Nation: How America Became a Culture of Wimps & Stoopits
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues
Wells Tower
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Gus Van Sant
Betony Vernon
The Boudoir Bible: The Uninhibited Sex Guide for Today
Timothy Wang
Brenda Webster
Robert Wilson
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[wpspoiler name=”RECOMMENDED VIEWING”]
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
Asia Arento
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Billy Corgan
The Smashing Pumpkins: Greatest Hits Video Collection, 1991-2000
Ron Davis
Rosario Dawson
Grindhouse Presents “Death Proof”
Jeff Feuerzeig
Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King
Garbage
David Milch
John From Cincinnati: The Complete First Season
Luck: The Complete First Season
Errol Morris
Errol Morris’ First Person: The Complete Series
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
Lou Reed
Lou Reed Through the Years: New York 1983 – Spain 2004
Lou Reed with Nico and John Cale: Paris 1972
Winona Ryder
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
David Sedaris
Morgan Spurlock
A Day in the Life: Seasons 1 & 2
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
Gus Van Sant
Robert Wilson
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