I, Libertine - Creation of a Hoax


	I, Libertine - Creation of a Hoax

hitchhiker08

6-26-2008 12:29 PM

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english literature, novels, authors, bestsellers, radio jockeys, jean shepherd

hitchhiker08 says:

Bestsellers can be created?!

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6-26-2008 4:47 PM

righthand

Good lesson. What have we learnt since?

6-27-2008 2:29 AM

hitchhiker08

Agree righthand. We never seem to learn from our mistakes...

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<SPAN>Cover of first edition (paperback)</SPAN></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I%2C_Libertine&oldid=221758349"><P><I><B>I, Libertine</B></I> was a literary <A title="Hoax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoax">hoax</A> that began as a practical joke by late-night radio raconteur <A title="Jean Shepherd" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Shepherd">Jean Shepherd</A>. Shepherd was highly annoyed at the way that the <A title="Bestseller" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestseller">bestseller</A> lists were being compiled in the mid-1950s. These lists were not determined only on sales figures but also on requests for new books at bookstores.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I%2C_Libertine&oldid=221758349"><H2><SPAN class="editsection">[<A title="Edit section: Creation of the hoax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I%2C_Libertine&action=edit&section=1">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class="mw-headline">Creation of the hoax</SPAN></H2></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/06/the-i-libertine.html" href="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/06/the-i-libertine.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wfmu.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/06/the-i-libertine.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.wfmu.org/img/AEEF7CAF-84A4-4FBE-AF74-8DED4503F738" alt="Ilibfront_2" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/06/the-i-libertine.html"><H3 class="entry-header">The I, Libertine Hoax</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/06/the-i-libertine.html">
 Over 50 years ago, one of the greatest media hoaxes ever was foisted upon New York City and the world at large. Overnight WOR-AM radio show host <A href="http://www.flicklives.com/">Jean Shepherd</A> asked his listeners ("the Night People") to go into bookstores and ask for a book that didn't exist. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/06/the-i-libertine.html"><IMG width="12" height="12" src="http://images.del.icio.us/static/img/mp3/play.gif" title="listen" /><A href="http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/MS/shep_nebel_0168.mp3">Jean Shepherd on Long John Nebel's radio show</A> (MP3)</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B2B3C1D9-CE7E-4C83-9950-7DA5777EAEC9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>