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...recently-released novel by Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, which has come under scrutiny for containing passages lifted from two books by Megan F. McCafferty, also includes three passages strikingly similar to those found in two other books...
...Viswanathan did not respond to a request for comment...
...Viswanathan has defended her writing in the past by stating that she “internalized” McCafferty’s books, and that she has a photographic memory...
...dare denounce Opal Mehta? I refer, of course, to “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” the recently published chick-lit novel by sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 that first became famous for its singular inception, and then infamous for its not-so-singular authorship. The book’s merits and demerits aside, it is, in many respects, a product of Harvard and a reflection of our community...
...Opal Mehta” may very well be inauthentic, literarily-bankrupt, profit-driven pop-culture fluff. But before we begin smugly and self-righteously to debate which circle of hell Viswanathan should be cast into for her transgression (the eighth), I ask that we pause for a moment and empathize with our embattled classmate. It should not be very difficult to do so if we honestly consider our own intellectual and cultural position. As a community, Harvard is more than complicit in the production of inauthentic chick lit, that regrettably pervasive genre of packaged pop culture easily digested by teenage...