Bob Madison

“He led us out of the bar and onto the street. I was so relieved to be outside that my head popped with a sense of relief, like a giant zit. A.J. smiled dumbly and staggered back a step.”
― Bob Madison

“I’m not a conspiracy theory kind of guy, but when city officials close down on you, when Princeton University won’t provide any answers, and when the media says what you’ve got is all a hoax, then where am I?

So here is the true story of the Peter Armstrong Papers.

You think you know all about them. Such eminent publications as The New York Times and The New Yorker have already said they were a forgery. (The New Yorker went so far as to say that I created a hoax to scare an already virus-nervous public.) Experts I hired examined the papers and verified that they are authentic documents from the period, and that some elements of the stories were undeniably true. Newsweek examined the documents with an open mind and a battery of forensic experts and historians of the era, but would not go as far to say that they described actual events. The women on The View had a rare moment of agreement when they said I was “a menace.” Rolling Stone, ever classy, said I was “full of shit.”
― Bob Madison, The Lucifer Stone