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Hello and welcome back to Books on the Brain. On this week's episode, Danielle is diving into the world of HP Lovecraft and the expansiveness of his work and Deirdre is taking us back to the 1950s and the book hoax that turned into a PR stunt!

https://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,92545,00.html

https://www.theawl.com/2013/02/the-man-behind-the-brilliant-media-hoax-of-i-libertine/

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/i_libertine

http://web.archive.org/web/20020427051336/flicklives.com/Articles/Wall_Street_Journel/8-1-56/8-1-56.jpg

https://gizmodo.com/the-bizarre-true-life-tale-of-the-hoax-behind-i-libert-1686572112

https://www.vox.com/culture/21363945/hp-lovecraft-racism-examples-explained-what-is-lovecraftian-weird-fiction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraftian_horror

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-writers-are-turning-h-p-lovecraft-s-racist-work-on-its-head-1.5883881

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/arts/television/lovecraft-country-season-finale.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/arts/television/hp-lovecraft.html

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