{"id":894,"date":"2022-11-02T15:36:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T19:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/?p=894"},"modified":"2025-02-22T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T14:48:59","slug":"book-review-hoaxes-and-other-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/book-review-hoaxes-and-other-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: On Hoaxes and Other Stories No. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Hoaxes and Other Stories<\/em>&nbsp;by Brian Dinuzzo. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 161 pages. $17.95, paperback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bRight away, this book pulled me in. The titular&nbsp;<em>Hoax<\/em>, the leading story of the collection by Dinuzzo, is about a budding actor who keeps dying, found the victim of a number of terrible accidents, though each one reported to the news is fake\u2014a hoax. The rest of the stories in the collection do a similarly excellent job of grabbing me immediately, drawing me into the folds with fascinating scenarios and interesting characters. If you\u2019re like me\u2014a chronic lover of weird stories\u2014this collection is for you. Dinuzzo expertly crafts these strange situations and makes each one a treat to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bThese strange stories are, of course, held up on the backs of Dinuzzo\u2019s wonderful characters. Grandpa Charlie of&nbsp;<em>The Undeniable Proof of the Bigfoot<\/em>&nbsp;comes to mind as one expertly rendered example: an explosive storyteller and grizzled hunter of the cryptid of legend, unwilling to let go of his first encounter with his mark, obsessed with unearthing the secret magics of his unexplained world, even as it cuts him off from his community. This wonderful pairing of situation and character are what make&nbsp;<em>Hoaxes and Other Stories<\/em>&nbsp;such a wonderful read for the individual who seeks strangeness with a heartwarming humanity at its center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014Sydney Anderson, MAR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoaxes and Other Stories&nbsp;by Brian Dinuzzo. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 161 pages. $17.95, paperback. \u200bRight away, this&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[75,51,43,30,52],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-brian-dinuzzo","tag-fiction","tag-mid-american-review-2","tag-review","tag-short-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}