Word: novelization
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...McClellan as part of Bolten's staff shake-up. Republican officials expect the new guy to be more aggressive in selling Bush's policies, both behind the scenes and on camera. And though a Fox star becoming Bush's mouthpiece may sound like something out of a Tom Wolfe novel, even White House reporters seem enthusiastic, hoping that one of their own will pop the building's hermetic seal. (The last person to make the jump from reporter to White House press secretary was Ron Nessen during the Ford years...
First-time authors dream of their work flying off the shelves--but not like this. One moment, Kaavya Viswanathan was a literary marvel, a Harvard sophomore with a reported $500,000 two-book deal and a highly touted chick-lit novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life. The next, her publisher, Little, Brown, was recalling every copy of Opal from the shelves, like so many tins of bad salmon. The defect? Viswanathan, 19, had plagiarized dozens of passages from two young-adult novels by Megan McCafferty...
...Plotkin ’00, who was arrested just two weeks ago for allegedly earning $6.7 million through an insider trading scheme with a colleague from Goldman Sachs. (In his fifth anniversary report, the New York Observer reported this month, Plotkin had written that he was working on a novel...
It’s hard to disagree with this assessment: whoever was responsible for the unfortunate (let’s be honest, uncanny) parallels between Viswanathan’s novel and the work of Megan F. McCafferty, artistic ambition had less to do with this project than dreams of big cash. What is most disheartening for me is what happened before the scandal hit the presses: In fact, I think the real transgression here is the corporate project masquerading as an artistic endeavor...
...when it comes down to it, I feel sorry for Viswanathan, whose talent seems to have been willingly squandered on the altar of ambition and mass production. But even if, as she now asserts, the echoes were the result of accidental influence, the fact that she used this novel packaging service should tell you something about artistic integrity...