In a truly modern media scandal, Tommaso Debenedetti (of the esteemed Italian Debenedetti) literary family has been publishing fake interviews in Il Piccolo magazine with the likes of Phillip Roth, John Grisham, and Gore Vidal.
Contacting many of Debenedetti’s subjects from years past (over half of which are Nobel Laureates), Judith Thurman reports that every subject has denied, in some way, the supposed interviews, or in some cases any contact with Debenedetti at all.
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