The land of the free and the home of the hoax
Slave narratives and white lies
The Forrest and The Tree
Danny Santiago and the ethics of ethnicity
Go ask Amazon
"I never saw it as a hoax": JT Leroy
Margaret B. Jones, Misha Defonseca, and "stolen suffering"
Minority literature and postcolonial theory
French and francophone, fraud and fake
What is a (French) author?
The French paradox and the francophone problem
The real, the romantic, and the fake in the nineteenth century
The single-use hoax: Diderot's La Religieuse
Merimee's Illyrical Illusions
Bakary Diallo: fausse-bonte
Elissa Rhais, literacy, and identity
Sex and temperament in postwar hoaxing: Boris Vian and Raymond Queneau
Camara lie? two African classics between canonicity and oblivion
Gary/Ajar: the hoaxing of the Goncourt prize and the making-cute of the Immigrant
Who is Chimo? sex, lies, and death in the Banlieue
I can't believe it's not Beur: Jack-Alain Léger, Paul Smail, and Vivre Me Tue
Before "Paul Smail"
Vivre Ne Tue (living kills me, or smile)
The popular press reads Vivre Me Tue
Smail speaks (by fax).