Laura Albert in conversation with Grant Faulkner Pt2
In Part 2 of my conversation with Grant Faulkner (Executive Producer of America’s Next Great Author, co-founder of 100 Word Story, co-host of Write Minded Podcast), we examine how his mentorship for other writers has taken book form, with his Pep Talks for Writers, in which he seeks to help writers develop a creative mindset. He reveals his work on a book about how writers cope with rejection – an ordinarily “taboo” subject – and how he deals with the publishers who have rejected this book! Grant also reflects on Something out there in the distance, his soon to be released collaboration with photographer Gail Butensky, as what he calls a “flash novel,” in which each photo is accompanied by a brief story that links to the next.
Laura Albert has won international acclaim for 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. Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, reissued by HarperCollins, have also been released as audiobooks by Blackstone Publishing. Laura Albert is the subject of Jeff Feuerzeig's feature documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story and Lynn Hershman Leeson's film The Ballad of JT LeRoy. She has written for The New York Times, The Forward, The London Times, Spin, Man About Town, Vogue, Film Comment, Interview, L'Équipe Sport&Style, Filmmaker, I-D, and others – more recently, the cover article for Man About Town and her reflections on fashion for VESTOJ. A writer for the HBO series "Deadwood," she also wrote the original script for Gus Van Sant's Elephant and was the film's Associate Producer. She has written the short films Radiance for Drew Lightfoot and ContentMode, and Dreams of Levitation and Warfare of Pageantry for Sharif Hamza and Nowness. For Tiempo de Literatura 2020's “The Narrative Universe of Laura Albert,” she engaged in a wide-ranging ZOOM conversation with Fernanda Melchor, International Booker Prize Shortlist author for her acclaimed novel Hurricane Season.
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