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...few—if any—“chick-lit” works have ever received the level of intense scrutiny that “Opal Mehta” is now enduring. And it is not clear whether the new allegations suggest further plagiarism, or whether Viswanathan is simply employing tropes that are widely-used in the genre...
While the newly-uncovered similarities between “Opal Mehta” and works by Salman Rushdie and two other authors are not as striking as the previously revealed parallels to Megan McCafferty’s books, the allegations raise fresh questions about the originality of Viswanathan’s novel...
...year-old author of “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” said last week that any similarities between her book and McCafferty’s “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings” were “unintentional and unconscious...
Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 faces new allegations that her novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” borrowed material from earlier works...
...appears to have borrowed passages from Salman Rushdie’s “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” and Meg Cabot’s “The Princess Diaries.” The New York Times also reported similarities between “Opal Mehta” and Sophie Kinsella’s “Can You Keep a Secret?” In each of the cases, the passages in question are short but contain similar rhymes and descriptions...