BUNK: THE RISE OF HOAXES, HUMBUG, PLAGIARISTS, PHONIES, POST-FACTS, AND FAKE NEWS BY KEVIN YOUNG Jewelry only to realize it was

only to realize it was the only thing keeping your head attached

Space-dwelling creatures sporting in the rings of a gas giant

Flesh (Base)

and the last bastions of hope in the dark

• 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 only to realize it wasLonglisted 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