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...York Times noted in August, the book is the latest controversy in a growing literary conspiracy in which powerhouse companies like Viking use an author’s pedigree rather than their talent as their principle publishing criterion. Resist the urge to make another Opal Mehta joke...
...Fund”—Simmons Entertainment Executive Committee—last spring, and an appeal to overturn the decision was voted down last week by a bare majority. The creation of the fund has excited some students and aroused anger in others. Agustya R. Mehta, a junior at MIT and the Simmons Hall officer who brought forward last week’s appeal, is continuing to protest the fund. Mehta is taking his appeal to the hall’s judicial committee, a student board whose job it is to settle dormitory disputes. “I didn?...
When Kaavya Viswanathan’s “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” made headlines for using passages “strikingly similar” to Megan McCafferty’s “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings,” an undergraduate wrote a letter to The Crimson, complimenting reporter David Zhou on his “infinite patience [for] reading countless crappy chick-lit passages...
...Chick Lit is in, then the Women, Gender, and Sexuality department has certainly taken notice. “The Romance” will compare classic Austen novels to modern revisions such as Bridget Jones’s Diary. Just don’t expect “How Opal Mehta...” to be on the syllabus...
...Women, Gender, and Sexuality department has certainly taken notice. “The Romance: From Jane Austen to Chick Lit” will compare classic Austen novels to modern revisions such as Bridget Jones’s Diary. But don’t expect “How Opal Mehta...” to be on the syllabus...