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Fakes : an anthology of pseudo-interviews, faux-lectures, quasi-letters, "found" texts, and other fraudulent artifacts / edited by David Shields and Matthew Vollmer.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
818.609 FAKE	Adult Non Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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ISBN	9780393341959 (pbk.)
Title	Fakes : an anthology of pseudo-interviews, faux-lectures, quasi-letters, "found" texts, and other fraudulent artifacts / edited by David Shields and Matthew Vollmer.
Edition	1st ed.
Published	New York : W. W. Norton, c2012.
Description	361 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes	Formerly CIP.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	In our bureaucratised culture, we're inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, reports, accidentally forwarded e-mail, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer have gathered forty short fictions that they find to be seriously hilarious and irresistibly teachable (in both writing and literature courses): counterfeit texts that capture the suppressed frustration and yearning that percolate just below the surface of most official documents. The innovative stories collected in Fakes trace the increasingly blurry line between fact and fiction and exemplify a crucial form for our time.
Subjects	American prose literature -- 21st century
	Creative nonfiction
	Counterfeits and counterfeiting in literature
	Found objects (Art)
Other Names	Shields, David, 1956-
Other Names	Vollmer, Matthew
Links to Related Works	Subject References: American prose literature -- 21st century . Counterfeits and counterfeiting in literature . Creative nonfiction . Found objects (Art) . See Also: Collage . Authors: Shields, David, 1956- . Vollmer, Matthew .