{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, \"Found\" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/fakes","description":"In our bureaucratized culture, we\u0026#39;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\u0026#39;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.\n\nWith contributions by:\nDavid Means\nGeorge Saunders\nStanley Crawford\nMark Halliday\nCharles Yu\nCaron A. Levis\nLorrie Moore\nKevin Wilson\nElizabeth Stuckey-French\nAmy Hempel\nDonald Barthelme\nJoe Wenderoth\nLaura Jayne Martin\nRon Carlson\nChris Bachelder\nRob Cohen\nMieke Eerkens\nJoseph Salvatore\nDaniel Orozco\nGreg Burnham\nJack Pendarvis\nRobin Hemley\nKari Anne Roy\nRachel B. Glaser\nWendy Brenner\nLucas Cooper\nSamantha Hunt\nCharles McLeod\nMatthew Williamson\nArda Collins\nDavid Shields\nMelanie Rae Thon\nMatthew Vollmer\nLydia Davis\nPaul Theroux\nRick Moody\nMichael Martone\nJ. Robert Lennon\nJonathan Safran Foer\nJ. G. Ballard","author_name":"Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Amy Hempel, Donald Barthelme, Joe Wenderoth, Laura Jayne Martin, Ron Carlson, Chris Bachelder, Rob Cohen, Mieke Eerkens, Joseph Salvatore, David Means, Daniel Orozco, Greg Burnham, Jack Pendarvis, Robin Hemley, Kari Anne Roy, Rachel B. Glaser, Wendy Brenner, Lucas Cooper, Samantha Hunt, Charles McLeod, David Shields, Matthew Vollmer, George Saunders, Arda Collins, Matthew Williamson, Melanie Rae Thon, Paul Theroux, Rick Moody, Michael Martone, Stanley Crawford, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mark Halliday, Charles Yu, Caron A. Levis, Lorrie Moore, Kevin Wilson, J. Robert Lennon, Lydia Davis, and J.G.  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