Recent coverage on Kevin Young

I've noticed multiples pieces by and about Kevin Young, one of my favorite writers, lately. His book Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News will be released soon. In the meantime, his writing and profiles on him have been showing up in various venues. Here's a rundown on a few of the items.

• September 14: Young's Bunk announced as the longlist for a National Book Award for Nonfiction.

• October 27, Young published "The Time Virginia Woolf Wore Blackface" in The New Yorker.

• November/December issue of Poets & Writers has Young on the cover and a cover story.

• November/December issue of Harvard Magazine issue published a review of Young's Bunk.

• November 3, Young's review of Ta-Nehisi Coates's We Were Eight Years in Power was published in The New York Times.

• November 6, Esquire ran a profile, "Can Kevin Young Poetry Matter Again?" by Robert P. Baird.

• November 7, the Times published  "In an Age of Fake News, a Historian of the Hoax" by Matthew Schneier on Young.

• November 9, Young's "How to Hoax Yourself: The Case of a Gay Girl in Damascus" appeared in The New Yorker.

• November 9, the L.A. Times published Colin Dickey's review "How fake news, hoaxes and humbug are about race" of Bunk.

• November 10, the StarTribune ran a review of Bunk by Tobias Carroll.

• November 12, The Boston Globe ran a profile, "Kevin Young takes over as New Yorker poetry editor" by Joseph P. Kahn.

• November 12, NPR ran a piece "A Book on 'Bunk' For Our Post-Truth Times" by Michel Martin.

• November 13, Kathleen Rooney's review of Bunk appeared in The Chicago Tribune.

• November 13, Nick Ripatrazone's review "We Love to Be Lied To" appears on The Millions.

• November 13, an interview "The Power and Politics of Hoaxes" with Young by Elisa Gonzalez was published by Guernica.

• November 14, an interview "We’ve Been Had: How Bunk Became Embedded In American Life" with Young appeared on the 1A podcast.

• November 14, The Times published a review, "Kevin Young's Enthralling, Essential History of the Hoax" focused on Bunk.


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Young is the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and beginning in November, he is now also the poetry editor at The New Yorker.

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