Sorting through the charges over whether author Michael Chabon unfairly makes shit up in one of his oft-delivered lectures, that lately rarest of media beasts surfaces: NYT reportage of an intra-McSweeney's feud. Says Dave Eggers of former staffer (and described serial fabricator) Paul Maliszewski,

"Hundreds of people around New York were getting some incredibly blasphemous e-mail full of incredible fabrications," said Dave Eggers, McSweeney's editor. "His contention was that people knew it was a joke. Nobody but him thought it was a joke."

Refreshing to see that Dave's still got his edge.

Meantime, on the Chabon front, an audio file of the lecture in question is available for your listening pleasure at Nextbook. Do let us know your thoughts fictu-fact, or factu-fiction?
Fiction, Hoax or Neither? A Literary Dust-Up [NYTimes]
Michael Chabon's Holocaust Hoax earns fake coverage in The New York Times [Moby Lives]
Lie, Memory [Bookforum]
Golems I Have Known [Nextbook]