{"id":105935,"date":"2019-08-14T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/14\/jt-leroy-review-real-life-literary-hoax-drama-loses-the-plot\/"},"modified":"2019-08-14T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T14:00:15","slug":"jt-leroy-review-real-life-literary-hoax-drama-loses-the-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=105935","title":{"rendered":"JT LeRoy review \u2013 real-life literary hoax drama loses the plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern star in an account of the notorious case of a supposedly reclusive author which pulls its punchesThis movie returns us to the strangely unrewarding story of the \u201cJT LeRoy\u201d literary hoax, recently discussed in Jeff Feuerzeig\u2019s 2016 documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story.\u201cJT LeRoy\u201d was the pen name, or avatar, or bogus persona created by American author Laura Albert who wrote avowedly autobiographical fiction about a young boy\u2019s experiences of homelessness and sexual abuse \u2013 but Albert compulsively posed as the supposedly reclusive and charismatic author on the phone to a growing number of journalists and celebrity fans. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/aug\/14\/jt-leroy-review-kristen-stewart-laura-dern-jim-sturgess\" target=\"_blank\">JT LeRoy review \u2013 real-life literary hoax drama loses the plot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern star in an account of the notorious case of a supposedly reclusive author which pulls its punchesThis movie returns us to the strangely unrewarding story of the \u201cJT LeRoy\u201d literary hoax, recently discussed in Jeff Feuerzeig\u2019s 2016 documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story.\u201cJT LeRoy\u201d was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}