Random number between 1 and 328, page 307 of Literary Hoaxes, in the middle of one of the most profitable hoaxes, Naked Came the Stranger, Penelope Ashe fictitious author #goliwaliwph #november2018 #pages pic.twitter.com/wRfvk8CDPp— glenncruz (@glenncruz) November 20, 2018
Random number between 1 and 328, page 307 of Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds by Melissa Katsoulis is in the middle of the story of one of the most profitable hoaxes aimed at the "literary mainstream," launched by 1960s newspaper columnist Mike McGrady and 25 other accomplices: Naked Came the Stranger, a chapter-by-chapter revenge sex of a wife wronged by a philandering husband, deliberately badly written, by a fictitious author Penelope Ashe. It was a success as a prank, and the work became a bestseller; the "intellectual pranksters" eventually confessed publicly. And that just fueled in more sell:
As predicted, sales began to soar, the hoaxing aspect lending Naked an even more cultish identity -- and, no doubt, enabling high-minded litterateurs and armchair critics legitimately to go out and buy a trashy book with a naked lady on the cover in the name of current affairs.... In the years that followed, it was translated into all the languages a 1970s porn-watcher might expect: Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish and French.The month of November is “Library and Information Services (LIS) Month” per Presidential Proclamation No. 837 signed on November 19, 1991 by former President Corazon C. Aquino.
This month in liwaliw Pages, titles pre-selected from my home library are those found under the 000 class of the Dewey Decimal System, or under computer science, information and general works. Check this title out on my Library Thing.
[This post is antedated: 20181122]
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