BUNK: THE RISE OF HOAXES, HUMBUG, PLAGIARISTS, PHONIES, POST-FACTS, AND FAKE NEWS BY KEVIN YOUNG Jewelry • Striking illustrations by contemporary

• Striking illustrations by contemporary Japanese artist Kotaro Chiba

who led research efforts in the early twentieth century

Flesh (Base)

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

and deal with the adventurous complications that come with it

BUNK: THE RISE OF HOAXES, HUMBUG, PLAGIARISTS, PHONIES, POST-FACTS, AND FAKE NEWS BY KEVIN YOUNG Jewelry • Striking illustrations by contemporaryLonglisted 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