Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, And Fake News

"It’s no secret that America is going through a fake news moment. There are people in this country who continue to believe that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and that Sept. 11 was an inside job. In Bunk, New Yorker poetry editor Kevin Young explores America’s obsession with falsehoods. He tells NPR that there’s something particularly American about hoaxes. “There is, in our culture, this notion of you can become anything, you can change,” he says. “And I think that gets intertwined with the hoax.”"