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Between the Lines: Bunk by Kevin Young

Schomburg Director Kevin Young’s latest book, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon—the legacy of P. T. Barnum’s “humbug” culminating with the currency of President Donald Trump’s “fake news.”

Kevin Young will be in conversation with Garnette Cadogan. Garnette Cadogan is a Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar (2017-2018) at Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. The editor-at-large of Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro), he is at work on a book on walking. A book signing reception will follow.

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For free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. All registered seats are released 15 to 30 minutes before start time, so we recommend that you arrive early.











When: Tue., Nov. 7, 2017 at 6:30 pm
Where: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd.
212-491-2200
Price: Free
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Schomburg Director Kevin Young’s latest book, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon—the legacy of P. T. Barnum’s “humbug” culminating with the currency of President Donald Trump’s “fake news.”

Kevin Young will be in conversation with Garnette Cadogan. Garnette Cadogan is a Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar (2017-2018) at Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. The editor-at-large of Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro), he is at work on a book on walking. A book signing reception will follow.

FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED
For free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. All registered seats are released 15 to 30 minutes before start time, so we recommend that you arrive early.

Buy tickets/get more info now