Plagiarize This!

October 19, 2007

This Thing Is A Lot Like That Thing
By Sharon Steel

There's something vaguely diabolical about Jessica Seinfeld's book, Deceptively Delicious. The basic concept is that you hide good-for-you things like spinach and sweet potatoes in yummy things like brownies and mac & cheese. Except 1) People say her recipes are actually disgusting and 2) She may have stolen the ideas from another lady who thought of those gross combinations first

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Lit Gossip, Major deals, NYT

November 28, 2006

Three cheers for literary imbroglios
By Nina MacLaughlin

Ian McEwan pulls a Kaavya Viswanathan?

The Times reports today that author Ian McEwan is under scrutiny for passages in his bestselling Atonement that bear striking similarity to those from a memoir by romance novelist Lucilla Andrews, who died last month from cancer. The lines in question regard medical procedures -- check out McEwan’s take: “In the way of medical treatments, she had already dabbed gentian violet on ringworm, aquaflavine emulsion on a cut and painted lead lotion on a bruise.

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Lit Gossip, Plagiarize This!

July 13, 2006

VROOM, F!!
By Sharon Steel

Good gracious. First, a Harvard University freshman fucked up a two-book deal worth a cool half-mil. (For those living under a rock, Kaavya Viswanathan plagiarized a nice chunk of her YA novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life--just your basic tween saga on ditching a super-scheduled, uptight over-achiever persona for some juicy high school dramarama.

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This Thing Is A Lot Like That Thing
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There's something vaguely diabolical about Jessica Seinfeld's book, Deceptively Delicious. The basi...

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Three cheers for literary imbroglios
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