Bibliograph

Fakes, an anthology of pseudo-interviews, faux-lectures, quasi-letters, "found" texts, and other fraudulent artifacts, edited by David Shields and Matthew Vollmer

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Fakes, an anthology of pseudo-interviews, faux-lectures, quasi-letters, "found" texts, and other fraudulent artifacts, edited by David Shields and Matthew Vollmer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fakes

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

783161112

Responsibility statement

edited by David Shields and Matthew Vollmer

Sub title

an anthology of pseudo-interviews, faux-lectures, quasi-letters, "found" texts, and other fraudulent artifacts

Summary

Presents forty short pieces that serve as humorous counterfeit texts, including a personal ad from Ron Carlson, a parking department complaint from Amy Hempel, and reviews of his own beard by Chris Bachelder

Table Of Contents

Introduction: learning how to fake it -- "Disclaimer" (disclaimer) / David Means -- "I can speak!" (letter responding to complaint) / George Saunders -- Some instructions to my wife concerning the upkeep of the house and marriage, and to my son and daughter concerning the conduct of their childhood (excerpt) (instructions/guidebook) / Stanley Crawford -- "One thousand words on why you should not talk during a fire drill" (essay as punishment) / Mark Halliday -- "Problems for self-study" (story problems) / Charles Yu -- "Permission slip" (public address) / Caron A. Levis -- "How to become a writer" (instructions) / Lorrie Moore -- "The dead sister handbook: a guide for sensitive boys (laconic method to near misses)" (glossary) / Kevin Wilson -- "Interview with a moron" (interview) / Elizabeth Stuckey-French -- "Reference #388475848-5" (letter to parking bureau) / Amy Hempel -- "The explanation" (interview) / Donald Barthelme -- Letters to Wendy's (excerpt) (comment cards) / Joe Wenderoth -- "This is just to say that I'm tired of sharing an apartment with William Carlos Williams" (note) / Laura Jayne Martin -- "Single woman for long walks on the beach" (personal ad) / Ron Carlson -- "My beard, reviewed" (reviews) / Chris Bachelder -- "The varieties of romantic experience: an introduction" (lecture) / Rob Cohen -- "Vis à vis love" (contract) / Mieke Eerkens -- "Practice problem" (story problem) / Joseph Salvatore --"Officers weep" (police blotter) / Daniel Orozco -- "Subtotals" (list) / Greg Burnham -- "Our spring catalog" (publisher's catalog) / Jack Pendarvis -- "Reply all" (e-mail) / Robin Hemley -- "Chaucer tweets the South by Southwest Festival" (Twitter feed) / Kari Anne Roy -- "Iconographic conventions of pre- and early Renaissance: Italian representations of the flagellation of Christ" (academic essay) / Rachel B. Glaser -- "The human side of instrumental transcommunication" (conference paper) / Wendy Brenner -- "Class notes" (alumni newsletter) / Lucas Cooper -- "Dear Stephen Hawking" (letter) / Samantha Hunt -- "National treasures" (auction catalog) / Charles McLeod -- "Discarded notions" (list) / Matthew Williamson -- "Star Lake letters" (correspondence) / Arda Collins -- "Life story" (compilation) / David Shields -- "Instructions for extinction" (instructions) / Melanie Rae Thon -- "Will & testament" (will and testament) / Matthew Vollmer -- "Letter to a funeral parlor" (letter) / Lydia Davis -- "Acknowledgments" (author's acknowledgments) / Paul Theroux -- "Primary sources" (works cited) / Rick Moody -- "Contributor's note" (contributor's note) / Michael Martone -- "The year's best fiction 2008: the authors speak" (author's [sic] explanations) / J. Robert Lennon -- "About the typefaces not used in this edition" (note on type) / Jonathan Safran Foer -- "The index" (index) / J.G. Ballard

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