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Appropriated Pseudonyms: The Ethics of Literary Hoaxes

In what was seen as a perverse act of white privilege, Hudson appropriated a Chinese name, rather rare in the writing community, to elicit more ...

Q&A With Savannah Knoop Who Embodied JT Leroy - The Cut

What It's Like to Be at the Center of a Famous Literary Hoax. By ... The line is some mix of Donna Haraway in Primate Fictions and many ...

Drunk Texts, Literary Hoaxes, and Love Hotels - The Airship

... Literary Hoaxes, and Love Hotels. By Kate Gavino. In preparation for the weekend, prepare for some drunk texts from your favorite literary rockstars. Just don ...

Hoax! 4 Truly (or Falsely) Great Literary Frauds | LitReactor

'A Million Little Pieces' by James Frey · 'Misha: A Memoir of the Holocaust Years' by Misha Defonseca · 'Love and Consequences' by Margaret B.

Literary hoaxes

Discusses the connection between Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake (2003) and the Ern Malley hoax. 'The novel demonstrates what the hoax itself revealed… 1 ...

Wilma Frances Minor, Ellery Sedgwick & the Greatest Literary Hoax

Reality can seem more unbelievable than fiction, as is this tale of the Lincoln love letters. For years there was speculation about a possible ...

The Greatest Literary Hoax: JT LeRoy - Part 2 - Facebook

JT LeRoy won't go down in history as one of the best literary writers—because JT LeRoy exists. Go deeper into "the greatest literary hoax" ...

Impersonation | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature

There are literary hoaxes, which generally (although not always) involve a body of work whose author is supposedly dead (and thus it is ...

'JT LeRoy' Director Dramatizes a Landmark Literary Hoax

I was wondering if you had any favorite con man or scam or mistaken identity movies that maybe informed your work on this film. Kelly: I ...

The Myth of Ephraim Tutt: Arthur Train and His Great Literary Hoax

The Myth of Ephraim Tutt: Arthur Train and His Great Literary Hoax [Molly Guptill Manning and John Train]. The Myth of Ephraim Tutt explores the true and ...

Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship | The New Yorker

... any), and prior reputation of the author irrelevant to a book's merits. You could disapprove of a writer's politics and prejudices if they ...

Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity

American hoaxes discussed here include Forrest Carter, JT LeRoy, and Margaret B. Jones. The French and Francophone tradition of imposture is ...

Publishing Scam Alerts - The Authors Guild

Authors should exercise caution with any unsolicited contacts from literary agents and agencies. ... Book Festival Scams. July 13, 2023: We ...

Term: Literary hoaxes | RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Community ...

Literary forgeries is being proposed as a new, related term instead of as a UF under Literary hoaxes. The discussion period for this term is ...

Authors Beware! Book Scams to Look Out For - Alyssa Matesic

So, what should you do if you are approached with a possible book scam? Check Their Online Presence. Some of these publishing scams take the ...

148 Great Literary Hoaxes - The History of Literature Podcast

What can we count on? What do we know is true? In this episode, host Jacke Wilson takes a look at a motley crew of inventive liars who set ...

Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship - RealClearBooks

... any), and prior reputation of the author irrelevant to a book's merits. ... ” The book was hugely popular, but it turned out to be partly ...

Unmasking JT Leroy: the greatest literary hoax of the Nineties | Huck

The teenage writer's novels created a storm across the globe during the 1990s and his dark history of abuse, prostitution, rape, exploitation and religious ...

Book Award Contests are (Mostly) Scams - Book Launchers

A few clients were impressed she knew the famous guy who wrote the forward. But, to call yourself an 'award-winning author' when anyone who ...

What makes a good literary hoax? A political point, for starters

A true hoax provokes. It questions cultural biases, shattering conventions. But the curious case of the three men writing as a female author Carmen Mola does ...