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Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, Found Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts - David Shields & Matthew Vollmer

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  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 that capture the barely suppressed
frustration and yearning that percolate just below the surface of most official documents. The innovative stories
collected in Fakes—including ones by Ron Carlson (a personal ad), Amy Hempel (a complaint to the parking
department), Rick Moody (Works Cited), and Lydia Davis (a letter to a funeral parlor)—trace the increasingly
blurry line between fact and fiction and exemplify a crucial form for the twenty-first century.
  
 
PRAISE
  “For those bored with the more stodgy ‘best of’ collections of literary fiction,
this book is an entertaining escape into that absurd realm of writing where ‘fake’ can be a good
thing.”—T. Rees Shapiro, Washington Post
  
  “This anthology gathers not so much artifacts
as artifices: nobody would mistake its fake letters, lists, and essays for real, but all of them hum with a finely
burnished unreality. The collection is just fun.”—Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe
  
  “The false
artifact seems to be experiencing a renaissance, and David Shields and Matthew Vollmer have done us a favor with the new
anthology Fakes, a solid collection that illuminates the possibilities of this form of mimicry. The anthology has an
endearing order, starting with a ‘Disclaimer’ (by David Means) and ending with a
‘Contributor’s Note’ (Michael Martone) and an ‘Index’ (J.G. Ballard). Humor with a dash
of pathos seems to be the desired effect of most of the pieces. The inherent tension between what the text purports to
be (real) and what the reader knows it to be (not real) lends itself to irony, if not outright satire. The stories are
also generally on the brief side, making it a fun collection to dip into here and there. But it’s not the lit
snob’s version of a joke book to be marooned on top of a toilet tank. Pieces such as Kevin Wilson’s
macabre and grief-torn ‘The Dead Sister Handbook: A Guide for Sensitive Boys (Laconic Method to Near
Misses),’ Donald Bartheleme’s abstracted ‘The Explanation,’ and Amy Hempel’s
‘Reference #388475848-5’ – a parking ticket appeal that becomes a meditation on urban anonymity
– bring far more than cleverness to the table.”—Michelle Crouch, The Rumpus
  
  “A
compendium of fictional satires, parodies, and other attempts to transform commonplace forms into literary art. These
stories suggest future directions for storytelling, and Shields and Vollmer convincingly press the necessity of the
task; these pieces represent ‘our oft-repressed language staging a rebellion.’”—Kirkus
Reviews
  
  “Cleverness abounds. The hits are very good indeed.”—Publishers Weekly
 

  “Shields joins forces with writer Vollmer to prove that creative use of form can be a delightful way to
tell stories. These imaginative short stories demonstrate how much plot, character, and feeling can be revealed in
documents and ephemera we consider dull and routine.”—Sarah Hunter, Booklist
  
 
“Certifiably inauthentic, but in a good way.”—Seattle Times 						

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