{"product_id":"keep-it-fake-paperback","title":"Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric G. Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe love these commands, especially in America, because they invoke what we love to believe: that there is an authentic self to which we can be true. But while we mock Tricky Dick and Slick Willie, we're inventing identities on Facebook, paying thousands for plastic surgeries, and tuning in to news that simply verifies our opinions. This is frontier forthrightness gone dreamy: reality bites, after all, and faith-based initiatives trump reality-based ones, and becoming disillusioned is a downer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eKeep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Eric G. Wilson investigates this phenomenon. He draws on neuroscience, psychology, sociology, philosophy, art, film, literature, and his own life to explore the possibility that there's no such thing as unwavering reality. Whether our left brains are shaping the raw data of our right into fabulous stories or we're so saturated by society's conventions that we're always acting out prefab scripts, we can't help but be phony. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut are some fakes more real than others? Are certain lies true? In lively prose--honest, provocative, erudite, witty, wide-ranging (as likely to riff on Bill Murray as to contemplate Plato)--\u003ci\u003eKeep It Fake \u003c\/i\u003eanswers these questions, uncovering bracing truths about what it means to be human and helping us turn our necessary lying into artful living.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric G. Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e is the Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEveryone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAgainst Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace\u003c\/i\u003e, and five books on the relationship between literature and psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.6 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42134135701639,"sku":"9780374536121","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/4249b33349fe379bd500f2dcaf8c55c1.webp?v=1732639364","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/keep-it-fake-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}