TY  - GEN
AU  - Young, Kevin
TI  - Bunk : the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts and fake news
SN  - 9781555977917
U1  - 001.95 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Minnesota
PB  - Graywolf Press
KW  -  
N1  - Contents 
Book one. A history of the hoax 
 I. The American museum: on the madness of crowds 
1. The age of imposture     7
Humbug ; P.T. Barnum ; Matthias the prophet ; The moon hoax ; Poe ; Tales --
2. The freaks of Dame Fortune :   27
Joice Heth ; The mummy ; The mammy ; What is it? ; The Circassian beauty --
3. Splitfoot : Spiritualism    45
William H. Mumler ; The Fox sisters ; Spirit photography ; Heaven tourism ; The Cottingley fairy hoax ; Arthur Conan Doyle --
4. Bearded ladies    63
 The Lincoln letters ; The "Dreadnought" hoax ; George Psalmanazar ; Girl wonders ; Opal Whiteley ; Joan Lowell ; Travel liars --
II. Neverland: on race & other popular delusions : 
5.  Cowboys & aliens     95
 Pornographies ; Imaginary Indians ; Grey Owl ; Nasdijj --
6. Blood nation :    117
Memoir  ; James Frey ; Margaret B. Jones ; Little Tree ; Captivity ; Poetic license --
7.  Lost boys    139
 Faction ; Forbidden love ; Three cups of tea ; Gay girl in Damascus ; Mutant message down under --
8. The time machine    161
 Lost races ; Professor Agassiz ; Dr. Moreau ; Degeneration ; Miscegenation ; War of the worlds ; Piltdown man ; The Cardiff giant ; The Tasaday --
III. Mysteria: a sideshow 
9. The heart is deceitful     189
 JT LeRoy ; Lance Armstrong ; Laura Albert ; Sybil ; Anthony Godby Johnson ; Hysteria --
10. Eve Black  211
Eve White ; South Virginia ; Avatar ; Millennialism --
Book two. The hoaxing of history
 : IV. The vampire's mirror: of imposture, forgery & monsters 
11   Butterfly books       233
 Frankensteins ; Frederic Prokosch ; Lily ; Thomas Wise ; Major Byron ; Voices --
12   Spruce Goose    253
 The Hitler diaries ; The autobiography of Howard Hughes ; Can you ever forgive me? ; Fake! ; Elmyr --
13   Bakelite    271
 Han Van Meegeren ; The Hitler diaries ; Jerzy Kosinski --
14  The vampire's wife      285
The painted bird ; Binjamin Wilkomirski ; Laura Grabowski ; Autofiction --
V. Hack heaven: of the journalist & liar 
15   Glass ceilings          305
 The new narrative ; Ravi Desai ; The New Republic ; Ern Malley ; Ruth Shalit ; Stephen Glass ; The journalist & the murderer --
16   The gingerbread man   327
 Taxis & the meaning of work ; Kae Bang --
17   In bad blood    343
Susan Smith ; Brutal imagination ; The Washington Post ; Jimmy's world ; Ben's world ; Volunteer slavery --
18   Burning down     359
 The New York Times ; Jayson Blair ; Michael Finkel ; The truth --
VI. Unoriginal sin: on plagiary, murder, bad poetry & other crimes : 
19.   Blacker than thou  381
 Rachel Dolezal --
20.  Professor Plum    391
 Plagiary ; Clark Rockefeller ; Gatsby --
21 Ghostbusters     397
 Kaavya Viswanathan ; Opal Mehta ; Adam Wheeler ; William-Henry Ireland --
22   Michael Brown's body    411
 Trumpism ; The ecstasy of influence ; Conceptual poetry ; Lynching ; Christian Ward ; Brad Vice --
Coda : The age of euphemism    431


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