Making It Up and Other Forms of (Literary) Journalism

‘Bob Dylan? Of all people?’ New Yorker’s superstar staff writer Jonah Lehrer fabricates Dylan quotes, among other transgressions, and pays for it — thanks to some diligent fact-checking by Michael C. Moynihan at Tablet magazine:

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/107779/jonah-lehrers-deceptions?all=1

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/jonah-lehrer-resigns-from-new-yorker-after-making-up-dylan-quotes-for-his-book/

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/interpreting-dylan-always-treacherous-was-lehrers-undoing/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/opinion/freewheelin-bob-dylan-jonah-lehrer-and-the-truth.html?hp

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/jonah-lehrer-cant-fool-everyone/2012/07/30/gJQAFSnCLX_blog.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/01/how-a-freelance-journalist-unraveled-jonah-lehrer-s-lies.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/06/neuroscience-bob-dylan-genius-creativity

http://observer.com/2012/08/laffaire-lehrer-sticking-up-for-jonah/

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2012/0731/Jonah-Lehrer-some-blame-media-adoration-for-his-fabrications

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/jonah_lehrer/search?contributorName=jonah%20lehrer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/03/jonah-lehrer-trouble-with-facts

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/03/jonah-lehrer-imagine-withdrawn-sale?newsfeed=true

http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2012/08/03/jonah-lehrer-tom-fiedle

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/183978/plagiarism-more-fake-interviews-in-jonah-lehrers-imagine-how-we-decide/

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08/jonah-lehrer-plagiarism-lies-keep-coming.html