Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Le
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Le
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In our bureaucratized culture, we´re inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, both writers and professors, have gathered forty short fictions that they´ve found to be seriously hilarious and irresistibly teachable (in both writing and literature courses): counterfeit texts that capture the barely suppressed frustration and yearning that percolate just below the surface of most official documents. The innovative stories collected in Fakes--including ones by Ron Carlson (a personal ad), Amy Hempel (a complaint to the parking department), Rick Moody (Works Cited), and Lydia Davis (a letter to a funeral parlor)--trace the increasingly blurry line between fact and fiction and exemplify a crucial form for the twenty-first century...
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Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Le
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