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

5.0

I really enjoyed this because of the imaginative range it had, yet still solidly tied together as a premise. The last couple of collections I've read (Pen Awards/O Henry being the worst offender) suffered from the curators putting style first over voice, so every story, even if written by female Chinese immigrant about her experiences or rich old white dude about his, sounded exactly the same, and was super boring.

That said, I was cautious going in about it being about experimenting with narrative form, which can quickly turn into something I don't enjoy, but there was only a single story that this bothered me in. The rest I really liked what they did with it.

Lastly,the opening essay in the book that sets it all up is a brilliant introduction, and made me enjoy all the stories even more.