Actress Joan Lowell‘s Cradle of the Deep was a best-selling memoir of a childhood at sea, sailing the globe for years with an all-male crew. But after Lincoln Colcord, who actually had spent years at sea, called it “unmitigated bosh”, Lowell’s yarn quickly unraveled. Her book is now noted for its audacious fakery, in works like this 2011 art installation. Both Lowell’s book and Colcord’s takedown in the New York Herald Tribune land in the public domain in 32 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown