wwnorton:To celebrate the release of Fakes: An Anthology of...

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To celebrate the release ofFakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts, we’re posting some of history’s greatest fakes, frauds and flimflams all week long. Today: The Great Grunge Hoax of 1992.

Cob nobbler. Wack slacks. Harsh realm. Lamestain. Swingin’ on the flippity flop. These were all printed in the New York Times as a lexicon of grunge-speak—the slang of those crazy kids up Seattle. They were all fake, th...