BUNK: THE RISE OF HOAXES, HUMBUG, PLAGIARISTS, PHONIES, POST-FACTS, AND FAKE NEWS BY KEVIN YOUNG Jewelry Flesh (Base)

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Crafted with unforgettable characters

and how to use Doom to give an extra edge to these conflicts

and watch your worries float away

• Striking illustrations by contemporary Japanese artist Kotaro Chiba

BUNK: THE RISE OF HOAXES, HUMBUG, PLAGIARISTS, PHONIES, POST-FACTS, AND FAKE NEWS BY KEVIN YOUNG Jewelry Flesh (Base)Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.Marlon James Award winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogues gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakersfrom the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of JT LeRoy and Donald J. Trump. Bunk traces the history of