SF Chronicle Friday, April 4, 2008
Leah Garchik
JT LeRoy/Laura Albert is, she says, the toast of Paree. “The people of
Paris understood! I wrote FICTION. Fake memoir – no. I wrote Fiction
and PUBLISHED it ALL under the label FICTION. Even Spider Man has a
MySpace page. … I have found so much acceptance here in S.F., but in
Paris – they celebrated me!”
Albert was brought to France by the European public television station
Arte, and was celebrated on TV, in Technikart magazine and at parties.
She spent some time with designer Christian Lacroix, who she says
admired her literary work and offered her one of his dresses. “I am
viewed as an artist that broke new ground. … I did surprise with art
and THAT alone is to be celebrated and encouraged! Not through the
puritanical burn-the-witch lenses of an American need to have a ready
villain.
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