What the Hey?

The other day, sitting in a little pizza place with a friend, I thumbed through a copy of The Rake and found “And Now This: Breaking the Spirit of Your Newborn Child” [May]. I just couldn’t believe what I was reading, so I had to do my own research. Now, the publisher you cite exists, but there doesn’t seem to be any Roy “Buck” Prescott or either of the books you say he wrote. This is a joke, right? What’s going on here?

Roy Prescott responds: Let me take one guess here: You were homeschooled in a solar-heated geodesic dome. Your mother plays a hammered dulcimer and your dad teaches clowning workshops to prisoners. It’s a big, tough world, son, and you won’t necessarily find what you’re looking for—or the truth, for that matter—sitting on your keister in a pizza parlor with “a friend” and wasting time on your computer. Wake up and smell the coffee.