Word: kaavya
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...last Harvard student to publish a book while a fulltime undergraduate was Kaavya Viswanathan ’08. Viswanathan’s book, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” was pulled from shelves by the publisher after plagiarism concerns were raised—initially reported by The Crimson...
...charge. 2. Prof. of Second Life Charlie Nesson, for rolling up the windows. 3. The Z-list, for making Jared “Charles Foster” Kushner possible. 4. Kurtz-ian football coach Tim Murphy, for proving you don’t need players to win games. 5. Kaavya Viswanathan, for her contributions to literature. 6.Cine-ass Andrew Bujalski, for really, you know, capturing the zeitgeist or whatever. 7. Pretzel-in-Chief Will Marra, for being a good sport. 8. God, for being cool with everyone thinking they’re Him. 9. Filmmaker James Toback, for somehow...
Favorite Movie: "The Departed" Favorite Song: Shakira--"Hips Don't Lie" Favorite TV Show: Colbert Report/Daily Show Favorite Medical TV Show: Grey's Anatomy Favorite Book: "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life" by Kaavya Viswanathan '08 Percentage of people who say they don't read: 30% [the same percentage that said "Opal Mehta" was their favorite book] Favorite Mainstage Show: American Grace Favorite Harvard Performance: H.M.S. Pinafore Average number of times per semester a Harvard student goes to the theater: 5 Favorite Fashion Trend: Ballet Flats Band students most want to play here...
Please, can we declare an end to the year of the literary gotcha? Because I?m fresh out of outrage. Yes, I cared that James Frey exaggerated or fabricated parts of his memoir A Million Little Pieces. I sort of cared that Kaavya Viswanathan borrowed bits of her young adult novel (the title of which is too long to bother typing) from other young adult novels. I even sort of tried to care that J.T. Leroy, the author of assorted literary works that almost nobody besides Courtney Love had read, was himself fabricated by a San Francisco couple looking...
...college blog,” and it’s like watching a prophesy play out before your eyes. Nick Summers: Just for the record, we don’t consider ourselves visionaries or anything. We rue the fact that [we] weren’t around for Kaavya last year. We and everyone else are a semester late. 2.FM: Why this year as opposed to any other year?C: Blogging is becoming something that is more socially acceptable. There’s that, and it’s probably that a lot of college kids are discovering that there?...