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Tanya talks to Matthew Goodman, author of The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth Century New York. The story is crazier than you can believe and no description here will do it justice. Enjoy the show.

April 1, 2023. In honor of April Fools' Day, we give you three historical tales of the bluff and the bamboozle. An autumn day in 1726, when an English peasant gives birth to something mysterious … and furry. Mets spring training in 1985, as the world meets an otherworldly baseball player with a superhuman arm. Finally, the summer of 1835 in NYC, when a scrappy start-up of a newspaper starts a frenzy about its exclusive: there's life on the moon! Along the way, we'll learn what it takes to pull off a convincing hoax. And how we can avoid being duped ourselves!Special thanks to our guests: Karen Harvey, professor of cultural history at the University of Birmingham and author of The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England; Jay Horwitz, former PR director and current VP of Alumni Relations for the New York Mets; and Matthew Goodman, author of The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Part 1- Matthew Goodman, author of "The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists and Lunar Man-Bats in 19th century New York." Part 2- Andrew Jampoler, author of "Sailors in the Holy Land: The 1848 American Expedition to the Dead Sea and the Search for Sodom and Gomorrah."

From 2008 - Matthew Goodman, author of "the Sun and the Moon: Hoaxers, Showmen and Lunar Man-Bats in 19th Century New York."

Episode One Hundred Three Show Notes KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine– Currently Reading –Chris dnf’d The Keep – Jennifer Egan (CW)Resurrection Bay (Caleb Zelic #1) – Emma Viskic (EF)Friends and Strangers – J. Courtney Sullivan (EF) release date June 30, 2020The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York – Matthew Goodman (CW)A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion – Fay Bound Alberti (CW) (audio)– Just Read –Relish: My Life in the Kitchen – Lucy Knisley (EF)Redhead by the Side of the Road – Anne Tyler (EF)Three-Fifths – John Vercher (EF)– Lucky 13th Readalong discussion– Go, Went, Gone – Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Susan Bernofsky)The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE.James Wood’s review can be read here.Jenny Erpenbeck and Claire Messud in conversation.– (Couch) Biblio Adventures –We hosted our own biblio adventure, a virtual readalong discussion of Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck. If you would like to join us for future discussions please subscribe to our newsletter.Emily attended a Zoom event via RJ Julia Bookseller’s talking with Anna Solomon about her new novel The Book of V.Chris attended two virtual events: A Q&A with Jennifer Egan and Johnny Temple about her novel The Keep, you can watch it here. A conversation with Tim Gunn and Stacy Schiff about her book Cleopatra.– Upcoming Jaunts –Emily will be attending a virtual event via the Center for Fiction: Roxane Gay in conversation with Nicole Dennis-Benn about the paperback release of her novel Patsy.Roxane Gay is offering a free digital care package – check it out here.Chris will be attending the 65th Annual Willa Cather spring conference: Untethered Cather on the Cusp of the 1920’s on June 4-6, 2020. The focus is on Cather’s book of short stories Youth and the Bright Medusa.– Upcoming Reads –Chris is joining in The Sandy Point Correspondence Club and will be reading O Pioneers! by Willa CatherMemorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir – Natasha Trethewey (EF) release date 7/28/20Dear Emmie Blue – Lia Louis (EF) release date 7/14/20Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close – Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman (EF) release date 7/14/20– Author Spotlight with Emma Viskic –Emma is the author of the Caleb Zelic series: Resurrection Bay, And Fire Came Down, and Darkness for Light You can learn more about Emma Viskic HERE.Emma toured the United States with fellow Aussie writers: Jock Serong, Sulari Gentill, Robert Gott– Also Mentioned –Also by Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad and Manhattan BeachAlso by J. Courtney Sullivan: Maine, Saints for All Occasions, The Engagements, CommencementTwilight – Stephenie MeyerWuthering Heights – Emily BronteClaire MessudThe Trial – Kafka FranzCall Your Girlfriend PodcastAmerican Writers MuseumAustralian Women Writers ChallengePurchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle!We are an affiliate of Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookstore & Café. Please purchase books from them and support us at the same time. Click HERE to start shopping.If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email bookcougars@gmail.com for instructions.Join our Goodreads Group!We have a BookTube Channel – please check it out here, and be sure to subscribe!Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.

Episode One Hundred Two Show Notes KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine– Lucky 13th Readalong discussion– Go, Went, Gone – Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Susan Bernofsky)The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HEREOur conversation about the book will air on May 26th– Currently Reading –Go, Went, Gone – Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Susan Bernofsky) (EF)– Just Read –Modern Scholars Series: The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction – Jenna Blum (CW)(audio)Want – Lynn Steger Strong (EF) release date July 7, 2020Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life – Joan D. Hedrick (CW)The Late Bloomer’s Club – Louise Miller (EF)The Country of the Pointed of Firs – Sarah Orne Jewett (CW)Real Life – Brandon Taylor (EF)Me and Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline – Loretta Young, Patsy Lynn Russell (CW)– (Couch) Biblio Adventures –Chris attended a virtual event through The Center for Fiction: Crime Fiction Writers talk Favorite Films and Books with Megan Abbott, Alison Gaylin, Jonathan Santlofer, Duane Swierczynski, Lauren WilkinsonEmily attended a virtual event at Reads & Company Bookshop with author’s Mary Beth Keane and Juliet GramesThe Books on the Nightstand: Trapped at Home video can be watched HEREEmily recommends three podcasts:Unlocking Us – Brené BrownSugar Calling – Cheryl StrayedHome Cooking – Samin Nosrat– Upcoming Jaunts –The Book Cougars are hosting a biblio adventure! Join us for a virtual discussion of our 13th readalong, Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck. The Zoom event will take place on Sunday, May 17th at 7:00 p.m. (EST). If you would like to join us please send an email to reserve your spot.– Upcoming Reads –A Small Thing to Want: stories – Shuly X. Cawood (CW)The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York – Matthew Goodman (CW)Redhead by the Side of the Road – Anne Tyler (EF)Relish: My Life in the Kitchen – Lucy Knisley (EF)A Bend in the Stars – Rachel Barenbaum (EF)– Author Spotlight with Rachel Barenbaum –A Bend in the Stars released in paperback on May 12, 2020You can learn more about Rachel Barenbaum HERERachel recommends Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy release date August 4, 2020– Also Mentioned –Gone with the Wind – Margaret MitchellThe Stand – Stephen KingLonesome Dove – Larry McMurtryNewburyport Literary FestivalUncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher StoweCatherine BeecherThe Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins GilmanWilliam Gilmore SimmsThe City Baker’s Guide to Country Living – Louise MillerA Little Life – Hanya YanagiharaR.J. Julia Booksellers Loretta Lynn: Coalminer’s DaughterJudy BlumeMargaret AtwoodThe Secrets We Kept – Lara PrescottGrubStreetPurchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! We are an affiliate of Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookstore & Café. Please purchase books from them and support us at the same time. Click HERE to start shopping.If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email bookcougars@gmail.com for instructions.Join our Goodreads Group! We have a BookTube Channel – please check it out here, and be sure to subscribe!Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.

Episode Ninety Five Show Notes CW = Chris WolakEF = Emily Fine– Currently Reading –Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed – Lori Gottlieb (CW)Northernmost – Peter Geye (EF) release date April 14, 2020Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season – Bernd Brunner (CW)A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories – Lucia Berlin (EF)Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life – Joan D. Hedrick (CW)– Just Read –Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator) (CW)Recipe for a Perfect Wife – Karma Brown (EF)Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North – Katherine Keith (CW) Read Chris’s review on her blog.Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid (EF) Lighthouse Road and Wintering – Peter Geye (EF)– Biblio Adventures –Chris and Emily went on two jaunts: Matthew Goodman at the JCC of New Haven discussing his book The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team and Jeanine Cummins at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison discussing her book American DirtChris caught up with Our Mystery Man, John Valeri, at the Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore where she bought two books by Carmen Maria Machado: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories and In the Dream House.Emily went on a quick trip to Philadelphia where she visited: Shakespeare & Co, The Rosenbach, Penn Bookstore, Penn Book Center, The Last Word BookshopChris had a couch biblio adventure with a friend watching the Bella Lugosi version of Dracula and also went to bid adieu to our buddy Elissa Sweet at Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT.– Upcoming Jaunts –February 18, 2020 – Chris and Emily are going on a joint jaunt to Northshire Bookstore in Manchester to celebrate the release of Simone St. James new book The Sun Down Motel.– Upcoming Reads –Mayo Clinic on Digestive Health: How to Prevent and Treat Common Stomach and Gut Problems – Dr. Sahil Khanna, M.B.B.S. (CW)You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why it Matters – Kate Murphy (CW)– Author Spotlight –Matthew Goodman author of:The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball TeamEighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New YorkJewish Food: The World at TableMatthew is inspired by the works of: Joan Didion, Robert Caro, Colum McCannSaul Bellow: “A writer is a reader moved to emulation.” Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers award winners that Matthew hinted about.– 12th Readalong – Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE. Our conversation about the book will air on February 18th.– Also Mentioned –So Long – Lucia BerlinThe Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World – Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst (Translator)The River – Peter HellerPJ Our Way – receive books with Jewish themes Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions – Valeria LuiselliAmerican FactoryWhere the Wild Things Are – Maurice SendakDracula – Bram StokerThe Broken Girls – Simone St .JamesThe Invited – Jennifer McMahonSuzanne ClauserShuly CawoodTen Days in a Madhouse – Nelly BlySeabiscuit: An American Legend – Laura HillenbrandThe Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary –Simon WinchesterLet the Great World Spin – Colum McCannNPR’s Latino USA: Digging Into American Dirt Purchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! We are an affiliate of Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookstore & Café. Please purchase books from them and support us at the same time. Click HERE to start shopping.If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email bookcougars@gmail.com for instructions.Join our Goodreads Group! We have a BookTube Channel – please check it out here, and be sure to subscribe!Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.

THE CITY GAME by bestselling author Matthew Goodman is the incredible underdog story of the 1949-50 City College Beavers basketball team, their unlikely rise to top and subsequent fall from grace. In this gripping, true-life account, Goodman uncovers the real story behind the greatest American sports scandal since the 1919 “Black Sox.” In 1950 the City College Beavers became the only basketball team in history to win both the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year. One year later the team’s star players were arrested for conspiring with gamblers to shave points. Overnight the players went from heroes to villains – but as Goodman shows, they were actually caught in a much larger web of corruption that stretched across major social institutions from City Hall to the police department, sports arenas, and even the universities themselves. It’s a historical story of duplicity and cynicism that’s all too relevant to big-money college sports today. Matthew Goodman is the author of three previous books of nonfiction: Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World; The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York; and Jewish Food: The World at Table. A New York Times bestseller, Eighty Days has been translated into eight languages. Goodman’s work has appeared in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, Salon, and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-richards/support

Watch out, the moon is full… of intrigue. Our lovely satellite is blamed for all sorts of Earth-bound mischief – from robberies to shape-shifting to general nutty behavior. It's also the setting for more than one loony tale. In this hour, as NASA spacecraft return to the moon, a look at the mythology it inspires. Discover the true correlation between crime and a full moon… the 1835 reports of unicorns and man-bats living on moon… and, our favorite hair-raising howler: the werewolf! Also, why some still insist the Apollo moon landing is a hoax. Plus, space travel – boxed and bundled. Guests: Phil Plait - Keeper of the skeptical website badastronomy.com and author of Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . . Matthew Goodman - Author of The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York Jim Underdown - Executive Director for the Center for Inquiry West, Los Angeles and keeper of the blog Hollywood Reality Check June Pulliam - English professor, Louisiana State University Cynthia Phillips - Scientist at the SETI Institute and author, most recently, of Space Exploration For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science)) Paul Spudis - Senior scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute Descripción en español Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ENCORE Watch out, the moon is full… of intrigue. Our lovely satellite is blamed for all sorts of Earth-bound mischief – from robberies to shape-shifting to general nutty behavior. It’s also the setting for more than one loony tale. In this hour, as NASA spacecraft return to the moon, a look at the mythology it inspires. Discover the true correlation between crime and a full moon… the 1835 reports of unicorns and man-bats living on moon… and, our favorite hair-raising howler: the werewolf! Also, why some still insist the Apollo moon landing is a hoax. Plus, space travel – boxed and bundled. Guests: Phil Plait - Keeper of the skeptical website badastronomy.com and author of Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . . Matthew Goodman - Author of The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York Jim Underdown - Executive Director for the Center for Inquiry West, Los Angeles and keeper of the blog Hollywood Reality Check June Pulliam - English professor, Louisiana State University Cynthia Phillips - Scientist at the SETI Institute and author, most recently, of Space Exploration For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science)) Paul Spudis - Senior scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute Descripción en español

The modern newspaper is not as old as you think. Until the early nineteenth century, they were thin and expensive. It was only with the advent of the penny press circa 1830 that the truly mass broadsheet was born. Yet selling a paper for a cent was not a straight-forward business proposition. In order to turn a profit, you needed to sell a lot of copy. You won’t be surprised to learn that the best way to move papers was to give the people what they wanted–scandal, outrage, marvels, miracles and outright inventions. In The Sun and the Moon. The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (Basic Books, 2008) shows how the early masters of the trade invented the modern paper by telling the public that the moon was inhabited by the recognizable ancestors of “Bat Boy.” Goodman marches a gallery of rogues across the book’s pages–an astronomer with an over-active imagination, an editor with an invented past, a horde of street urchins hawking papers and eating oysters. P.T. Barnum and Edger Allan Poe make appearances! This is a terrifically entertaining book, popular history at its best. And, of course, it’s ALL TRUE! Now put down The Weekly World News and go buy The Sun and the Moon! Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The modern newspaper is not as old as you think. Until the early nineteenth century, they were thin and expensive. It was only with the advent of the penny press circa 1830 that the truly mass broadsheet was born. Yet selling a paper for a cent was not a straight-forward business proposition. In order to turn a profit, you needed to sell a lot of copy. You won’t be surprised to learn that the best way to move papers was to give the people what they wanted–scandal, outrage, marvels, miracles and outright inventions. In The Sun and the Moon. The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (Basic Books, 2008) shows how the early masters of the trade invented the modern paper by telling the public that the moon was inhabited by the recognizable ancestors of “Bat Boy.” Goodman marches a gallery of rogues across the book’s pages–an astronomer with an over-active imagination, an editor with an invented past, a horde of street urchins hawking papers and eating oysters. P.T. Barnum and Edger Allan Poe make appearances! This is a terrifically entertaining book, popular history at its best. And, of course, it’s ALL TRUE! Now put down The Weekly World News and go buy The Sun and the Moon! Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The modern newspaper is not as old as you think. Until the early nineteenth century, they were thin and expensive. It was only with the advent of the penny press circa 1830 that the truly mass broadsheet was born. Yet selling a paper for a cent was not a straight-forward business proposition. In order to turn a profit, you needed to sell a lot of copy. You won’t be surprised to learn that the best way to move papers was to give the people what they wanted–scandal, outrage, marvels, miracles and outright inventions. In The Sun and the Moon. The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (Basic Books, 2008) shows how the early masters of the trade invented the modern paper by telling the public that the moon was inhabited by the recognizable ancestors of “Bat Boy.” Goodman marches a gallery of rogues across the book’s pages–an astronomer with an over-active imagination, an editor with an invented past, a horde of street urchins hawking papers and eating oysters. P.T. Barnum and Edger Allan Poe make appearances! This is a terrifically entertaining book, popular history at its best. And, of course, it’s ALL TRUE! Now put down The Weekly World News and go buy The Sun and the Moon! Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The modern newspaper is not as old as you think. Until the early nineteenth century, they were thin and expensive. It was only with the advent of the penny press circa 1830 that the truly mass broadsheet was born. Yet selling a paper for a cent was not a straight-forward business proposition. In order to turn a profit, you needed to sell a lot of copy. You won’t be surprised to learn that the best way to move papers was to give the people what they wanted–scandal, outrage, marvels, miracles and outright inventions. In The Sun and the Moon. The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (Basic Books, 2008) shows how the early masters of the trade invented the modern paper by telling the public that the moon was inhabited by the recognizable ancestors of “Bat Boy.” Goodman marches a gallery of rogues across the book’s pages–an astronomer with an over-active imagination, an editor with an invented past, a horde of street urchins hawking papers and eating oysters. P.T. Barnum and Edger Allan Poe make appearances! This is a terrifically entertaining book, popular history at its best. And, of course, it’s ALL TRUE! Now put down The Weekly World News and go buy The Sun and the Moon! Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices