To bullshit or not to bullshit, there's no question about it. The 250,000 sold copies of Notes was an outright lie. Maybe the Nola editors didn't know that, but B. knew it and was quick to write them a letter to tell them it was simply not true.
The 16 books, 2,000 poems and 191 mag appearances bit... well, that's not an outright lie ;)