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...Muchnick said she??d be working with Viswanathan again for her second book, and Cohen, for her part, still keeps in touch with the young author even though her days of needing college-application advice are long over. Cohen said she loved the early proof of "Opal Mehta" so much that she tore through it in a single...
...Viswanathan seems to be fitting in equally quite well at Harvard--socially and otherwise. She??s part of the Isis Club and a member of Women in Business, for instance, and on top of her schoolwork and her writing, she??s one of three Harvard kids working for the national student investment firm Global Platinum Securities (according to a colleague who recruited her, she recommends stocks to the company’s investment committee, and she intends to pursue finance—not writing—as a career after graduation...
...Opal Mehta ever seemed uncomfortable with alcohol and partying, Viswanathan seems like she??s got it pretty well under control: part of her Facebook “about me” reads “Wednesdays are the new Saturdays,” and one of her listed interests is “morning-after calls with Lauren...
...Only vaguely discomforting but discomforting nevertheless. Sure enough, as Viswanathan obsessively references contemporary singers/shows and prods her readers to think about what it means to grow up too fast and what it feels like to be a cliché, it becomes clear that she??s following proudly in the tradition of Ivy League literary wunderkinds like Nick McDonell, Natalie Krinsky, and Liz Wurtzel ’89. Just like them, Viswanathan is compulsively concerned with authenticity and the anxiety of alienation...
...Well, at least until she writes her second book. And if it’s true what she??s been telling the papers about sticking with Opel Mehta as the protagonist, then Harvard’s in for quite a ride...