A review by whatdotheyknowaboutfriends
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, Found Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts by Matthew Vollmer, David Shields

3.0

Great concept, passable execution. Some of these were highly enjoyable, either funny or sad, but a number of the pieces employed obscure, almost language-poetry style writing, or fell solidly in the writing-for-writers genre. Jonathan Safran Foer's piece, for example, is a subtle parody, but some pieces rely heavily on the tiring device of taking a familiar, often bureaucratic form, and stuffing it with nonsense and cries of guilt and loneliness from the speaker. Not good reads.