Tuesday, July 31, 2012

New York writer admits faking Dylan quotes...

A writer for The New Yorker magazine has resigned after admitting he fabricated quotes from singer Bob Dylan in his recent book.

Jonah Lehrer, 31, has come clean over fake statements he quoted from the music legend in his recent book Imagine: How Creativity Works.

Lehrer, a science journalist and author, admitted faking material after being quizzed by Tablet reporter Michael Moynihan following earlier allegations that he had repurposed quotes in several New Yorker blogs.

 In a statement released by the book's publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lehrer acknowledged that "the quotes in question either did not exist, were unintentional misquotations, or represented improper combinations of previously existing quotes". Full story...

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