Fakers
From James Frey and his fake memories of drug-addled dissolution to Stephen Glass and his fake dispatches from the fringes of politics to the author formerly known as JT LeRoy and his fake rural tough talk, we are beset by real-seeming fiction masquerading as truth. Fakers is a fascinating exploration of the varieties of faking, from its historical roots in satire and con artistry to its current boom. Paul Maliszewski journeys into the heart of our fake world, telling tales of the New York Sun<U+2019>s 1835 moon hoax, the invented poet Ern Malley (the inspiration for Peter Carey<U+2019>s novel My Life as a Fake), and Maliszewski<U+2019>s own satiric letters to the editor of the Business Journal of central New York (written, unbeknownst to the editor, while he worked there as a reporter). Through these stories, he explains why fakers almost always find believers and often flourish--Publisher description.
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