Fake (overviews & introductions)
Print:
- The Museum of Hoaxes by Alex Boese
- False Impressions: The Hunt for Big Time Art Fakes by Thomas Hoving
- Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel by John Howgego
Online:
Shameless Charlatans & Predatory Impostors
Print:
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Le caméléon : L’invraisemblable histoire de Frédéric Bourdin by Christophe D’Antonio
Online:
- San Francisco’s Top 10 Sex Scandals – San Francisco Chronicle
- Confidential File” May 11, 1959. Paul V. Coats
- Ding Dong Daddy: The Real Story
- The Imposter: interview with the Chameleon
- France holds “Chameleon Impostor”
- Annals of Crime. “The Chameleon: The Many Lives of Frederic Bourdin
- The Imposter’: Documentary Reveals Stranger-Than Fiction story of Frederic Bourdin’s Mind-Blowing Deceptions
- A ‘Who Is It’ More than a Whodunit. Review of The Chameleon
- Frederic Bourdin – the Man Who Changed His Identity 500 Times (Video)
Donald Crowhurst: The Amazing Voyage That Never Was
Print:
- The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin & Ron Hall
- Great Exploration Hoaxes by David Roberts
- Strange and Dangerous Dreams: The Fine Line Between Adventure and Madness by Geoff Powter
Documentary:
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Deep Water, 2006
Online:
- Q+A with Deep Water Director Louise Osmond – National Geographic Adventure
- Cheating Their Way to Fame – Smithsonian Magazine
- The Remarkable Journey of Donald Crowhurst – Teignmouth Museum
- Drama on the Waves: The Life & Death of Donald Crowhurst – The Independent
- Photos of the beached Teignmouth Electron trimaran, 2006
More Human than Human: Fake Flesh and the Uncanny Valley
Print:
- Screw the System – Arse Elektronika Anthology #1
- Edison’s Eve by Gaby Wood
Online:
The Wrath of Amazing Randi: The Epic Battle of Supernatural vs. Sleight of Hand
Print:
- Flim Flam by James Randi and Isaac Asimov
- The Truth About Uri Geller by James Randi
- The Faith Healers by James Randi and Carl Sagan
- Talking to the Dead by Barbara Weisberg
- Houdini, A Life Worth Reading by Higher Read
Online:
- James Randi Educational Foundation official website
- Peter Popoff official website
- Uri Geller official website
- The Confession of James Hydrick – Wired.com
Elymr De Hory: The Uncertainty of Authenticity
Print:
- Fake! The Story of Elmyr de Hory, the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time by Clifford Irving
- ENIGMA – The New Story of Elmyr De Hory The Greatest Art Forger of Our Time by Ken Talbot
- Fake: Forgery, Lies, & Ebay by Kenneth Walton
- Forgery: Crime-Solving Science Experiments by Kenneth G. Rainis, Jeffrey H. Luber
Film:
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Orson Welles’ F is for Fake
Online:
- Elmyr De Hory’s “official site”
- Elmyr De Hory – Crime Library
- Gleaning the Identity of an Enigmatic Forger – New York Times
- In Praise of Art Forgeries – New York Times
Mermaids, Sea-Hags, Vampire Squids: Real & Imagined Creatures of the Deep
Print:
- Among the Mermaids: Magical Creatures, a Weiser Books Collection by T Crofton Croker, W.B. Yeats, Varla Ventura
- Octopus!: The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea by Katherine Harmon Courage
- Beyond Bizarre by Varla Ventura
- Irish Fairy & Folk Tales by W.B. Yeats
- Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps by Chet Van Duzer
- The Anatomy of the Sea: Over 600 Creatures of the Deep by David Ponsonby, Georges Dussart
Online:
- National Geographic – Deep Sea Creatures
- The Blog of the Bizarre
- Weekiwachee Mermaids
- Cynthia Mermaid
- Animal Planet – Mermaids
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For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. These reading lists, along with selected excerpts, illustrations and summaries of each month’s talks are compiled in our monthly Odd Salon Journal. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Tamar Baskind, Steen Comer, Amber Guetebier, and Marci Bennett. Thank you!
