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...conclusions to which many have jumped, disappointment with the utter glee with which some have skewered her, and, of course, disappointment with Viswanathan’s actions themselves.The campus is abuzz with conversation and debate about the similarities between Viswanathan’s new novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” and two books by Megan F. McCafferty, “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings.” Viswanathan, who received a two-book deal reportedly worth...
...think the only way you can become a writer,” she said, “is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.” Random House says it has documented 45 passages in Viswanathan’s novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” that bear striking similarities to McCafferty’s first two books, “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings.” The publishing house said Tuesday that it was not satisfied by Viswanathan?...
Yesterday Viswanathan also gave her first public interviews—to NBC’s Today Show and The New York Times—since The Crimson reported Sunday morning that striking similarities existed between her recently released novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” and two books by Megan F. McCafferty...
...that some of the copying may have occurred because she has a photographic memory and has read McCafferty’s novels three or four times each. Michael Pietsch ’78, the senior vice president and publisher of Little, Brown—which released “Opal Mehta”—told the Times yesterday that the publishing house would not sue Viswanathan for breach of contract. Most book deals include clauses that the writing must be original, according to Justin Hughes, the director of the intellectual property law program at Yeshiva University?...
...Harvard Book Store, Mark Lamphier, the manager, said on Monday that he did not have sales numbers for “Opal Mehta” and did not know how the controversy would affect sales...