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the Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-facts, and Fake News / Kevin Young
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Apart from money, and fame, the fabulist’s true motive is a strange combination of getting away with it and getting caught, hinting all along. === Like Clifford Irving before them, both Glass and notorious New York Times fabulist Jayson Blair would fabricate not just stories but sources, exploiting the fact-checking feedback loop in which facts and quotes that cannot be independently or easily verified are provided by reporters themselves. === “His stories were interesting only because they were purportedly true,” Jonathan Chait writes. “The characters in his stories”—that is, his journalism—“as in his novel, lack any depth or believability.” === Complete Uncollected Short Stories of the late J. D. Salinger, a book that doesn’t exist—at least not yet—except in the pirated versions that circulate now and then, gathering all that he published in the New Yorker but would never let be reprinted during his lifetime.