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...when it comes down to it, I feel sorry for Viswanathan, whose talent seems to have been willingly squandered on the altar of ambition and mass production. But even if, as she now asserts, the echoes were the result of accidental influence, the fact that she used this novel packaging service should tell you something about artistic integrity...
...drew the comparison between Plotkin and Viswanathan not to partake in what many have deemed gleeful schadenfreude, but because I wanted to address the concern voiced by some Crimson readers as to why Viswanathan has been, in their view, singled out for public scrutiny...
...subject of professors and bestsellers—and, by the way, this scandal has only boosted sales for both Viswanathan and McCafferty’s books—I turn to former Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis ’68, whose forthcoming book, “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education,” argues in part that the tendency at Harvard toward corporate culture and specialization has undermined the pursuit of education and true passion for knowledge...
...going to try to shirk the blame here, not for Viswanathan nor for my generation. It takes courage and hard work to go against the prevailing grain of corporate society, to trust your instinct and passion when the powers of the market demand otherwise. Opal Mehta, too, can tell us about parental pressure (whether or not she could do it in her own words remains to be seen). Nobody I know at Harvard can completely tune out the temptations of cash or the security and immunity that a Harvard education seems to guarantee now and in the future...
...writing to second Charles Drummond’s 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...