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...that vilifies writers like these, it goes without saying that defenders of plagiarists are few and far between. Few, for instance, would dare defend a writer like Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, whose novel—“How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life”—borrows more than just a few words from several previously published books. Few, that is, except for David Shields, who, in “Reality Hunger,” maintains that Viswanathan must be considered an artist precisely because?...
...Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” plagiarized by Kaavya Viswanathan...
...right that we can form such dramatic opinions regardless of whether we have access to and time to process crucial information that might complicate our beliefs (or convince us that withholding judgment is the only reasonable choice)? When Kaavya Viswanathan was accused of plagiarism, I remember hearing contemptuous comments in every corner of Harvard Yard well before the suspect passages of her book were publicly scrutinized. Watching rumors quickly transform into absolute “facts” and seeing reasonable people cast sweeping verdicts were frightening events for a freshman born in a totalitarian state, who thought that groupthink...
4/23/06: The Crimson reports that passages of then-sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan ’08’s book bear striking similarities to those written by another author, Megan F. McCafferty...
...Approximate number of Web site hits on thecrimson.com at the height of a plagiarism scandal surrounding student novelist Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 and her novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got A Life...