Gary Lippman In Conversation with Laura Albert
Born and raised in New Jersey, Gary Lippman received a law degree from Northwestern University and has worked with New York's Innocence Project. Lippman's play Paradox Lost ran off Broadway for a month in 2001 and his writing has been published in The New York Times, The Paris Review, VICE, Fodors, and more. Having lived in Illinois, Florida, California, and France, Lippman can now be found in what used to be called "Fun City" with his imaginary French bulldog, his very real Hungarian wife, and a whenever-he's-inclined-to-visit adult son.\n\nLaura Albert has won international acclaim for her fiction. Writing as\nJT LeRoy, she is the author of the best-selling novels Sarah and The\nHeart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and the novella Harold's End. She\nis the subject of Jeff Feuerzeig's feature documentary Author: The JT\nLeRoy Story and Lynn Hershman Leeson's film The Ballad of JT LeRoy.\nShe has written for The New York Times, The Forward, The London Times, Spin, Man About Town, Vogue, Film Comment, Interview, L'\xc9quipe Sport&Style, Filmmaker, I-D, and others \u2013 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\nProducer. She has written the short films Radiance for Drew Lightfoot\nand ContentMode, and Dreams of Levitation and Warfare of Pageantry for Sharif Hamza and Nowness.\nwww.LauraAlbert.org