Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, Found Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts

by David Shields, Matthew Vollmer, Donald Barthelme, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039334195X
• ISBN13: 9780393341959
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 7.8"