Great fun -- but this version of the prank is probably only about 85% accurate. It's not clear the phantom book ever did make any best-seller lists, though it c

Great fun -- but this version of the prank is probably only about 85% accurate. It's not clear the phantom book ever did make any best-seller lists, though it certainly did get talked about. Here's a 2013 telling from The Awl that's a little more careful with the details: http://www.theawl.com/2013/02/the-man-behind-the-brilliant-media-hoax-of-i-libertine http://www.theawl.com/2013/02/the-man-behind-the-brilliant-m... Either way, it's a wonderful story.