The Interlaced History of Hoaxes and Race

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 15, 2017

Kevin Young, poet, director of the NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and New Yorker poetry editor, talks about his new book, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Graywolf Press, 2017). 

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