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...book would be reprinted after it had been revised “to eliminate any inappropriate similarities.” Pietsch told the New York Times Wednesday that the publishing house would not sue Viswanathan for breach of contract. Kinsella’s and McCafferty’s publisher, Random House, declined to respond to Little, Brown’s announcement. “With Little, Brown having voluntarily withdrawn their book from the marketplace last week, the Random House authors and publishers of the books involved will not be commenting further on this matter,” Random House...
...making fun of. A case in point would be Gary Shteyngart's first novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, a charming-enough outing about expatriates in Prague that has approximately one joke that gets steadily less funny over time. An exception would be Shteyngart's second book, Absurdistan (Random House; 352 pages), a satire that is profoundly funny, genuinely moving and wholly lovable...
...Random House, which published both of McCafferty’s novels, said in a statement Tuesday that Viswanathan’s explanation was “deeply troubling and disingenuous...
...maintained, I fail to understand how this girl can be allowed to stay at Harvard. Give her the boot and let the storm blow over, keep her in school and we can all look forward to more bad press as she is pulled into the legal system by Random House...
...tolerant perspective on the controversy surrounding sophomore novelist Kaavya Viswanathan (“Girl Interrupted,” comment, Apr. 26). If a few plot points and a borrowed phrase every 10 pages constitute “literary identity theft”, as Tuesday’s statement from Random House alleges, few authors will escape whipping. With Chaucer and Boccaccio, Shakespeare and Holinshead, Robert Johnson and Skip James, why not Viswanathan and McCafferty? Any literary omelet worth its salt is likely to contain a few borrowed eggs...