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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...
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’s Cardozo School...
...thinking the last time I read them was my senior year maybe,” Viswanathan said on the show. “But I didn’t bring them to college. I never looked at them while I was writing ‘Opal.’ They’re on my bookshelf at home...
...want of a Harvard student. But inside that 400-year-old veneer built by the accomplishments of Harvard alumni, cracks exist—cracks that have recently gained international media scrutiny. Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 allegedly plagiarized passages in her bestselling novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life”; Nick B. Sylvester ’04 falsified aspects of a Village Voice article, “Do You Wanna Kiss Me?”; Eugene M. Plotkin ’00 was indicted for a $6.2 million insider trading...
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...