<![CDATA[Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders]]>

false <![CDATA[Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders]]> 4335403 1 For anyone who has ever liedor been lied toTrue-life tales about faking, from Clifford Irving to Stephen Glass, by an award-winning writer. "Fakers are believedand, at least for a time, celebratedbecause they each promise us, screen-gazing and experience-starved, something real and authentic, a view, however fleeting, of a great thing rarely glimpsed."from 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. We are living in the era of the fake. 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's 1835 moon hoax, the invented poet Ern Malley (the inspiration for Peter Carey's novel My Life as a Fake), and Maliszewski'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. Since 1997, the author has been on the trail of fakers and believers, asking the tricksters why they dissembled and the believers why they were ever fooled. Fakers tells us much about what we believe and want, why we trust, and why we still get duped. The essays in Fakers explore: Jayson Blair's faked New York Times stories, about Jessica Lynch and much else Early American con artists Oscar Hartzell and the long-running Drake's fortune scam Internet hoaxes about man-eating bears Han van Meegeren's forged Vermeers Clifford Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes Michael Chabon's fictionalized version of his early years Binjamin Wilkomirski's fabricated Holocaust memoir In-depth interviews with three fakers: journalist Michael Finkel, painter Sandow Birk, and performance artist Joey Skaggs 4383285 5 1 2009 Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders total:31|5:4|4:4|3:11|2:7|1:5| 31 88 66 10 4335403 1595584226 9781595584229 31 10 Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders 2.84 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4335403.Fakers_Hoaxers_Con_Artists_Counterfeiters_and_Other_Great_Pretenders 1 0 false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 06:16:58 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 07:16:06 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4335403 1595584226 9781595584229 31 10 Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders 2.84 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4335403.Fakers_Hoaxers_Con_Artists_Counterfeiters_and_Other_Great_Pretenders 1 2 false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 17:10:13 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 02:32:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4335403 1595584226 9781595584229 31 10 Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders 2.84 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4335403.Fakers_Hoaxers_Con_Artists_Counterfeiters_and_Other_Great_Pretenders 3 1 false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jan 25 07:25:20 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 15 08:46:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4335403 1595584226 9781595584229 31 10 Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders 2.84 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4335403.Fakers_Hoaxers_Con_Artists_Counterfeiters_and_Other_Great_Pretenders 2 0 false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 05:23:26 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 08:24:34 -0700 2009 Business Journal of Central New York. This apparent attempt at establish...more...]]> 4335403 1595584226 9781595584229 31 10 Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders 2.84 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4335403.Fakers_Hoaxers_Con_Artists_Counterfeiters_and_Other_Great_Pretenders 4 0 false Wed May 20 12:48:24 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 02 09:48:49 -0800 2009 As my hackwork piled still higher I began to think of journalism not as a series of unique assignments or stories, but as a limited number of ideas and conventions, which each story had somehow to affirm.

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