This Is Not a Hoax

• in contemporary US politics currently there is a lot of talk about truth, post-truth, truthiness, fake news. Although this book does not engage the same content (politics) it does question how and why we trust in authority
• questions what about national identity and history needs to be questioned to move into reconciliation, topical to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• first full-length book on contemporary Canadian hoaxes in visual art and literature
• engages ideas of colonialism in art history and museum curatorial practices; settler and first nations relations;
• author will tour a linked art exhibit in Spring 2019, which will include creative writing workshops around fakes, hoaxes, museum artifacts, libraries and archives