More Foul Play

Oh Noes?!!!11

First James Frey then what’s his/her face, LeRoy, (no, not Leroy Jennkins). . . and now the latest is this chick.

A Harvard University sophomore with a highly publicized first novel acknowledged Monday that she had borrowed material, accidentally, from another author’s work and promised to change her book for future editions.



Kaavya Viswanathan’s “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” published in March by Little, Brown and Company, was the first of a two-book deal reportedly worth six figures. But on Sunday, the Harvard Crimson cited seven passages in Viswanathan’s book that closely resemble the style and language of the novels of Megan McCafferty.

An interesting tidbit (found on Todd’s blog) I didn’t know about:

A Harvard professor surmises that the passages that were plagiarized were edited to make them less “googleable”.

I should write a book. . . I’ll call it Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V the Mangina Monologues. . .