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Four days after Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 came under scrutiny for possible plagiarism in her novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” her publisher yesterday asked stores across the country to pull the book from their shelves...
...unsold copies of “Opal Mehta.” The move came only a day after Michael Pietsch ’78, senior vice president and publisher of Little, Brown, told The New York Times that the publishing house would not withdraw current editions of the novel from bookshelves...
...sophomore’s novel contains numerous passages that are strikingly similar to those found in two books by Megan F. McCafferty, “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings.” In a statement on Monday, Viswanathan apologized to McCafferty and said that any similarities between the texts were “unintentional and unconscious...
...likely, though I’ve never been to it, that the Fly’s annual Gatsby party is neither nostalgic nor ironic. Yet to read “Gatsby,” as Mahtani does, as a merely cautionary tale is to miss the genius of the novel. For “Gatsby” acquires its true tragic dimensions not only through its devastating social critique but also through its celebration of the beauty of Gatsby’s dream—its exuberance, its optimism, its irrepressibility—even as it remains ever elusive...
Nice to meet you: I am a sociable, competent Harvard student, certainly adept at multitasking, and I get pretty decent grades. I write a fair bit, and I think I’m pretty good at it, and I’m working on a novel that may be turned into a screenplay. Of course, I’m getting some help with it—I am very busy, and ultimately this stuff has to sell. Which brings me to my next point: After this, I want to be an investment banker...