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...literary thief and a liar. As a Native American writer and multiculturalist, I worried that Nasdijj was a talented and angry white man who was writing as a Native American in order to mock multicultural literature. I imagined that he would eventually reveal himself as a hoaxer and shout, "You see, people, there is nothing real or authentic about multicultural literature. Anybody can write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Story Stolen Is Your Own | 1/29/2006 | See Source »

Slater warns Wode-Douglass that Chubb is a hoaxer and that McCorkle is merely a phantom. This seems to explain everything until Chubb tells her the almost convincing story of how McCorkle--powerful, angry and nearly 7 ft. tall--turned up one day in the flesh. Is McCorkle flesh and blood or a projection of Chubb's imagination? And since Chubb's own verse is mush, how could he possibly have been the real author of McCorkle's stunning poems--the work of a man who had "ripped up history and nailed it back together with its viscera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rhyme and Punishment | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...Carey quotes original documents from the scandal extensively but updates the action to the early '70s and transports a now lone hoaxer, Christopher Chubb, to Kuala Lumpur. The book's narrator (and Chubb's hoaxee) is Sarah Wode-Douglass, editor of a highbrow literary review based in London. When Chubb shows her a single page of verse written by Bob McCorkle (the novel's Ern Malley), Wode-Douglass becomes obsessed with publishing work bearing his name. The mainspring of Carey's story is a fascinating statement by Max Harris, editor of Angry Penguins, years after the original hoax was exposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Highbrow Hoaxers | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...Agents would probably visit all high-volume businesses in such areas, like Kinko's, whose convenience seems as appealing to bad guys as to the public. Among recent notorious customers: the Sept. 11 terrorists, who made their plane reservations on the computers at a Florida Kinko's, and anthrax hoaxer Clayton Lee Waagner, who was arrested last week at a Kinko's near Cincinnati, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kinko's Connection | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...prime-time special, CBS falls victim to a hoaxer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

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