The fact that we remain incapable of imagining that women and especially teenage girls are capable of creating anything

means that nobody could figure out what was going on. Hello, dear listeners.

This week we are joined again by our husband of hoaxes, Sarah Marshall, of the podcasts

you're wrong about, and you are good.

And this time, she is taking the reins and taking me on quite the journey through two possible historical literary deceptions and asks me

to try to figure out what is real, what is fake, and of course, what it all means.

This is a sibling episode to a recent one we did on Your Wrong About called

Hoax Memoir Spectacular, so make sure you check that out as well.

So without further ado, I'm your host, Chelsea Weber Smith, and this is American

Hysteria.

Hello, dear listeners, we are here today with even more literary hoaxes. It's been a lit hoax month. And of course, I am beyond honored and thrilled to welcome our dear Sarah Marshall back to the show. Hi, Sarah.

Hello, Kelsey. I'm doing showgirl's arms. Yeah, I wish that you all could see it.

Nomi Malone is goddess.

So this week, I get to take a backseat, which is always so fun for me and let the stories wash over me.

Sarah, I believe you have, you know, some number,

a mystery number of a mystery number. Could be one, could be 30. I don't know. We'll see.

It could be just rapid fire lit hoaxes. But we have some literary hoaxes, probably ones that I am not super familiar with. So I'm really

excited to learn along with all of you in our audience. So Sarah, would you like to take it away?

I would love to. And this is also, to be clear, a Laura Palmer and Donna Hayward-style

companion episode. Yes. You know,

best friend's necklace style to a recent episode, if you're wrong about, hoax memoir spectacular.

Yes. That you guessed it on. Oh yeah. Yeah. And it was a, that was so much fun. So I am glad that we're going to get to the ones we didn't get to.

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