cance of traditional narrationnand made storytelling utterlynhollow, now its tropes are fitnvehicles for liars like himselfnIn this collection of essays andnspeeches, Barth offers us some ofnhis nonfictional lies, though whatnthe distinction between fictionnand nonfiction is for a professionalnliar is difficult to say.nCertainly, Earth's calls fornnationalizing major industries,nhis . . .