Monthly Archives: April 2017

Herman Melville’s April Fool, The Confidence-Man

This weekend we celebrate the 160th anniversary of Herman Melville’s troubling novel The Confidence-Man; His Masquerade. Published on what was then called April Fool Day, the novel features a series of confidence tricks performed on a Mississippi River boat, named … Continue reading

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