Meredith Maran, @meredithmaran, is a book critic and essayist for The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Good Housekeeping, Salon, and other publications. She’s the author of thirteen books, including Why We Write and the novel A Theory of Small Earthquakes. Her new memoir, The New Old Me, will be out from Blue Rider in March, 2017.
Laura Albert discusses her alter ego JT LeRoy, Jeff Feuerzeig's documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story, her complicated relationship with her mother, and life as a hustler.