Artist Holding Hunger Strike Over New Yorker Article
This is great. John Perry, a painter who was portrayed in a New Yorker article as stalking the actor John Lurie, is in day 17 of a hunger strike regarding the article. He says the magazine shouldn’t have published it (uh, in August of 2010, by the way) and won’t eat until a correction is issued.
David Remnick, Editor-in-Chief of The New Yorker, told The New York Post that he’s not going to give in:
The piece was thoroughly reported and fact-checked, and is a fair representation of both sides of the story.
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