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...Wild, and Got a Life” and two books by Megan F. McCafferty, “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings” through a tip one Friday. David Zhou ’07, an associate arts chair, read “Opal Mehta?? and “Sloppy Firsts.” When he was done, he had identified enough similarities such that the overlaps seemed more than just coincidences. Late on Saturday night, Zhou, Managing Editor Daniel J. Hemel ’07, and I decided to run the story.Some...
...Opal Mehta?? may very well be inauthentic, literarily-bankrupt, profit-driven pop-culture fluff. But before we begin smugly and self-righteously to debate which circle of hell Viswanathan should be cast into for her transgression (the eighth), I ask that we pause for a moment and empathize with our embattled classmate. It should not be very difficult to do so if we honestly consider our own intellectual and cultural position. As a community, Harvard is more than complicit in the production of inauthentic chick lit, that regrettably pervasive genre of packaged pop culture easily digested by teenage...
Certainly “Opal Mehta?? is the product and responsibility of a single individual (well, maybe not single...), but we are all implicated in its creation. We collectively form a system which prizes ambition and performance and calls these things superiority. When the publication of “Opal Mehta?? first became known, the $500,000 advance dominated conversation and stimulated admiration and jealousy. The fact that the novel is unabashed chick lit inspired, at most, smiling pseudo-mockery. Harvard turned an indulging blind eye on bad literature and saw only an example of precocious...
...small stack of “Opal Mehta?? copies continued to be displayed on a table at the front of the store...
...hour before the Harvard Coop closed last night, the book was still prominently featured in the glass case outside of the Mass. Ave entrance. Stacks of “Opal Mehta?? and McCafferty’s two books were displayed together at the information desk inside. A manager at the Coop, Nancy Scheirer, declined to comment...