La·bor Day
ˈlābər ˌdā/
noun
noun: Labour Day; noun: Labor Day
- a public holiday or day of festivities held in honor of working people, in the US and Canada on the first Monday in September, in many other countries on May 1.
When
JT LeRoy, a young H.I.V.-positive novelist from West Virginia, whose
fiction supposedly mirrored his tough life as a teenage hustler, was
revealed in 2006 to be a literary hoax, many who had considered themselves friends or sought to help his career felt betrayed.
A
decade later, a documentary that includes calls with authors and
celebrities recorded secretly by the hoax’s perpetrator, Laura Albert,
has reopened old wounds and raised questions about whether documentary
films, increasingly seen as potent forms of journalism, should adhere to
the same standards as other types of reporting.
“This
is downright evil and disturbing,” said the actress and director Asia
Argento, who did not know that her conversations had been recorded or
that excerpts were in the documentary. “I am very angry.”
The
documentary, “Author: The JT LeRoy Story,” released last Friday,
recounts Ms. Albert’s trajectory largely from her perspective. After she
agreed to speak with the director, Jeff Feuerzeig, he discovered that
for years she had recorded her phone conversations, preserving cassette
tapes labeled with the names of people like Ms. Argento and the writers
Mary Karr and Dennis Cooper.
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