I don't know if there should be that kind of money involved in the truth, you know?

Welcome to your wrong about. I'm Sarah Marshall. And this week, we are talking about one of our favorite

topics, a publishing hoax. And we were talking about it with one of our beloved friends of the show,

Adrian Dobb. We talked with Adrian in a couple of bonus episodes recently about Kristiana F, the German version of Go Ask Alice, where

in this case it did really happen, and about mazes and monsters, one of my favorite little

fear-mongering TV movies of the Satanic Panic that also happens to star Tom Hanks.

This is an episode about not just any publishing hoax, but about the

fake Hitler Diaries, which for a moment captivated a vast and credulous public. And this brings up

many questions. How do you go about fabricating fake diaries? How do you do them for Hitler? And why would you? What need

would this serve? For the writer, for the people who need to keep the hoax going, and for the

public who briefly bought it? I love a Ford Curie story, and I love a story about the way people tell a lie revealing

the truth that they don't quite know about themselves.

And this one is both.

And I was so happy to have Adrian with us to talk about it.

Over in our bonus episodes, we have a fun new one for you about Pagbreckens's I Hate to Housekeep book, part of a series with our

episode on the I Hate to Cookbook, a couple months ago with Sarah Archer. And this time I get to talk about it

with your wrong about editor Miranda Zickler, who knows all about how to keep your house clean.

We're going to talk about some practical tips,

and we also have a poem I wrote in the style of Sylvia Plath at Waffle House,

and I promise it all fits together.

And that's about it.

Here is your episode.

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