BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130326T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130326T193000 DTSTAMP:20240328T160535 CREATED:20130129T092300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130129T092300Z UID:247343-1364326200-1364326200@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Behind the Legend of JT Leroy DESCRIPTION:Laura Albert\, author of the JT LeRoy books\, discusses the acclaimed and controversial literary career of LeRoy\, with readings from Albert’s fiction by Rebecca Brown\, Sean Beaudoin\, Nicole Hardy and Garth Stein. Stranger editor-in-chief Christopher Frizzelle will lead an onstage interview with Albert. \nIn 1999\, a teenage former street kid who called himself JT LeRoy published his first novel\, Sarah — a stunning fable of loss and survival\, which combined humor and shock in a celebration of America’s most marginalized: the homeless\, sex workers\, and transgendered people. \nSarah launched an acclaimed career for the reclusive young man\, winning critical praise and a devoted following of readers. JT then published two other startling and original works of fiction\, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things and Harold’s End. \nBut in 2006\, controversy erupted with the revelation that the author of the JT LeRoy books was actually Laura Albert. Yet despite the vicious media backlash that ensued\, new readers have never stopped coming to Laura’s writing\, and her books have continued to sell and win praise and admiration internationally. \nTICKETS ARE $25/$20 FOR HUGO HOUSE MEMBERS. GET YOUR TICKETS ONLINE HERE! This event benefits Richard Hugo House. \nRSVP on Facebook \nAbout Laura AlbertLaura Albert won international acclaim with her fiction. Writing as JT LeRoy\, she is the author of the best-selling novels Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things\, and the novella Harold’s End\, published by Last Gasp with illustrations by Cherry Hood. \nShe contributes to print and online publications internationally\, in a career that includes articles for The New York Times\, The London Times\, Spin\, Film Comment\, Filmmaker\, Interview\, I-D\, and Vogue. She was a contributing editor to Black Book\, I-D\, SOMA\, and 7×7 magazines and is currently an editor for Lemon Magazine\, Conde Nast Glass magazine\, Diane Pernet’s A Shaded View On Fashion (www.asvof.com)\, and the Outpost section of www.psychoPEDIA.com. \nLaura’s writing has brought her to speaking engagements from the story-telling series The Moth and the Radiolab broadcasts in New York to Foyles bookstore in London and Brazil’s international book fair Bienal Brasil do Livro e da Leitura\, where Laura and Alice Walker were the 2012 U.S. representatives. Her breakthrough interview given toNathaniel Rich was the cover feature of the Fall 2006 issue of The Paris Review. \nShe wrote the original script for Gus Van Sant’s Elephant\, winner of the 2003 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival\, and was associate producer. For Asia Argento’s film adaptation of The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things\, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival\, Laura served as associate producer. She also co-scripted Jean-Claude Schlim’s film House of Boys and was a writer for the HBO series Deadwood. \nSponsored by The Stranger URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/behind-the-legend-of-jt-leroy/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR