Kevin Young (1) (1970–)
Auteur de Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
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A propos de l'auteur
Kevin Young is the author of a previous book of nonfiction, The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, which won the PEN Open Book Award, was recognized as a New York Times Notable Book, and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He is the author of eleven afficher plus books of poetry, including Brown and Blue Laws: Selected Uncollected Poems 1995-2015. Young is the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and poetry editor for the New Yorker. afficher moins
Crédit image: Author Kevin Young at the 2017 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63931377
Œuvres de Kevin Young
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (2017) 342 exemplaires
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Directeur de publication — 174 exemplaires
Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (2000) — Directeur de publication — 29 exemplaires
Robert Rauschenberg : Thirty-four illustrations for Dante's Inferno (2017) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Contributeur — 178 exemplaires
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery and Abolition (2021) — Avant-propos — 32 exemplaires
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (2006) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Young, Kevin
- Date de naissance
- 1970-11-08
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Providence, Rhode Island, USA - Études
- Harvard College
Stanford University
Brown University - Professions
- dichter
- Organisations
- University of Georgia
Indiana University
Emory University
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Membres
Critiques
Emile and the Field par Kevin Young
From Kirkus: "A charming exploration of children’s special relationship with nature."
This book was very long, and it took me a very long time to finish. It definitely had interesting parts and ideas, but it was also extremely tedious. The author is most certainly knowledgeable and a gifted writer, but he likes to hear his own voice a bit too much. He could use much more editing. I would have preferred to read a 50-page essay on the topic and would have gotten just as much information. Plus, I could have avoided the word salad that ended up allowing the otherwise interesting thesis to get lost.
The ideas of how race, racism, and other cultural themes intertwine with hoaxes, liars, plagiarism, forgery, and more is provocative. He dives deeply into many instances historically and how culture has played a role in who, when, how, and why people choose to hoax or fake or bend the truth. The problem I experienced was that he dove so deeply and neglected to give the reader an oxygen tank. I was left drowning in all of the text. While he did make me chuckle at his word play occasionally, it mainly felt like he was writing for himself rather than trying to reach out and take the journey together.… (plus d'informations)
The ideas of how race, racism, and other cultural themes intertwine with hoaxes, liars, plagiarism, forgery, and more is provocative. He dives deeply into many instances historically and how culture has played a role in who, when, how, and why people choose to hoax or fake or bend the truth. The problem I experienced was that he dove so deeply and neglected to give the reader an oxygen tank. I was left drowning in all of the text. While he did make me chuckle at his word play occasionally, it mainly felt like he was writing for himself rather than trying to reach out and take the journey together.… (plus d'informations)
Across a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. Capturing the power and beauty of this diverse tradition in a single indispensable volume, African American Poetry reveals as never before its centrality and its challenge to American poetry and culture. - from the publisher
An interesting book that I'm not sure earned its full page count (500+ in the print edition, I read an ebook from the library). The overall thesis is that hoaxes and fake news are built on an otherized foundation, usually racial but sometimes religious or other minority culture. The idea is that we're more willing to be fooled by "weird stuff" from cultures we consider "weird" to begin with—a fine assertion, and one I think is probably even true—but I was expecting this book more to be about the people who perpetrate hoaxes, not the, idk, sociology of hoaxes.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 25
- Aussi par
- 25
- Membres
- 1,978
- Popularité
- #13,003
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 59
- ISBN
- 101
- Langues
- 2
