On my summer reading list: Matthew Goodman’s The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (Basic Books, 2008). Mr. Goodman retells the story of the Sun’s breathtaking attempt to hoax subscribers with its account of life on the moon in the summer of 1835. Along the way he introduces us to such famous types as Edgar Allan Poe, P. T. Barnum, and Benjamin Day, the “Sun” publisher who gave us the saying, “If a dog bites a man, that’s not news. But if a man bites a dog, that’s news.”