Amateur Hour, a new monthly speaker series that I am co-curating with Jack Hitt at New Haven’s Institute Library, “explores the passions and pursuits of America’s most inspiring fanatics, obsessives, tinkerers, and collectors.”

Next Tuesday I will be interviewing Alan Abel, America’s great master of the hoax (and the only man ever to have his obituary retracted by the New York Times). If you’re in New Haven, come meet the man who coined the phrase, “A nude horse is a rude horse.”

(Poster by Design Monsters)