Author: The JT LeRoy Story

A reliable story from an unreliable narrator who has not exactly come to repent so much as recount, Author: The JT Leroy Story offers an insight into celebrity and iconography from a housewife who, even before social media, created a viral smash from her apartment in Brooklyn.

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“Author: The JT Leroy Story”, a documentary from Jeff Feuerzeig, is as truthful as it gets. Yet its content is so wildly absurd, that it plays like a work of fiction.

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Laura Albert, the real author behind fabricated sensation JT LeRoy, tells her side of the story in Jeff Feuerzeig’s endlessly riveting documentary.

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Doc on celebrity writer-turned-con job lets the perpetrator tell story in her own words for better or worse.

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Watch celebs get played in ‘The JT LeRoy Story’

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We get Albert’s side of the story, and that’s clearly problematic. How much faith should we put in the account of someone who tells such massive whoppers? That question constantly hovers over Jeff Feuerzeig’s documentary, which is by turns fascinating and unseemly.

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The account of how JT LeRoy, the pen name of author Laura Albert, became a literary success and all the rage during the early Aughts is a fascinating cultural phenomenon, and aspects of it are captured in this film by documentarian Jeff Feuerzeig.

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"Author” is most interesting — and least self-aware — as a study in the gullibility and narcissism of the celebrity class.

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Literary hoax mastermind Laura Albert tells her side, not always persuasively, in this slickly crafted documentary.

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Jeff Feuerzeig provides disgraced author Laura Albert with the opportunity to rehabilitate her professional reputation.

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Jeff Feuerzeig isn't skeptical enough of Laura Albert's explanations and rationalizations.

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