Okay, so if I'd known, before today, that a high-school kid got a half-million advance for a two-book deal, I'd be green with envy.
But when I see today that this young writer has so clearly lifted from another novelist's book on the same topic, it occurs to me that publishers are out of their minds!
Of course,it won't matter: Kaavya Viswanathan Harvard ’08 has already got her Dreamworks movie deal and they could give a shit whether she plagiarized or not. They can just buy the other novelist off.
My favorite part of the Harvard Crimson's story is this quote:
"Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Werner Sollors, after reviewing a list of 24 similar passages found in “Opal Mehta” and “Sloppy Firsts,” wrote in an e-mail yesterday: “Judging by the excerpts you have assembled, and three department stores and 169 specialty shops later, it looks as though some strong version of anxiety of influence could clearly be detected in ‘How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,’ all the more so because of those miniscule variations that change ‘Human Evolution’ to ‘Psych’ in the hope of making the result less easily googleable.”
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Posted by: Dayncetha | December 27, 2011 at 04:21 AM