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Fakes: An Anthology Of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, And Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012)

by David Shields(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

039334195X (ISBN13: 9780393341959)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: Great concept, passable execution. Some of these were highly enjoyable, either funny or sad, but a number of the pieces employed obscure, almost language-poetry style writing, or fell solidly in the writing-for-writers genre. Jonathan Safran Foer's piece, for example, is a subtle parody, but some pieces rely heavily on the tiring device of taking a familiar, often bureaucratic form, and stuffing it with nonsense and cries of guilt and loneliness from the speaker. Not good reads.
review 2: There were some exceptional pieces in this anthology; I particularly loved Wendy Brenner's story, and Kevin Wilson's, and the police blotter one. Most of them fell kind of flat, though I think this is an important anthology as it shows that analogue forms often become sole... morely about the use of the form itself -- but, at the same time, I felt the more successful pieces were the ones that stuck most stridently and insistently to the form, using it as a way to create and contain meaning. less

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