Mark Alan Stamaty ("Boox," Aug. 18) need not go all the way to China or an imaginary 1968 to find examples of art products as spurious as the Chinese Harry Potter books.
Sometimes these ideas are pointedly anachronistic, as when the book mentions "the spurious argument that Polk was obliged to attack Mexico before Mexico turned its weapons against the United States".
Of all the potentially spurious phrases regularly found lurking on book jackets, none should be approached with greater wariness than "This is his first novel".
In this age of fungible memory, many of the most exciting "recovered" episodes turn out to be fabrications--like the sexual-blackmail contracts between President Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe that Sy Hersh discovered were spurious and left out of his book..
In this age of fungible memory, many of the most exciting "recovered" episodes turn out to be fabrications--like the sexual-blackmail contracts between President Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe that Sy Hersh discovered were spurious and left out of his book.
I met Biderman at his Midtown Toronto office to find out why he's putting out a book about such a spurious topic that is sure to piss people off and to dig into how his personal life relates to his business.
Negroponte's perspective is an international one, and although the idea of enormous e-book uptake among developing nations somehow nullifying healthy book sales in established ones is spurious in my opinion, it is consistent with his worldview and I can't fault that.
The reduction of a book to its author and spurious autobiography is one of the recurring themes in her interviews, never conducted in person.
This book is universally regarded as spurious by modern scholars, and even Pliny, who accepts its authenticity, reports that some people ascribe it to Cleemporus.
One of his grandfather's most convincing and most spurious stories is at the core of the book Moody is working on now.
