Fangirling over a plagiarist?
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“If you’re looking for an explanation for how 40 passages from Megan McCafferty’s “Sloppy Firsts” ended up in Kaavya Viswanathan’s “Opal Mehta” well…you aren’t going to get an answer here.
I agree with other reviewers who found this first interview with Viswanathan in 15 years extremely disappointing and not at all illuminating. If Viswanathan didn’t intentionally plagiarize, then who did? “I guess we’ll never know the truth,” Patrick says. And why not? PATRICK DIDN’T ASK. At another point, someone says something to the effect of, “We’ll never know if someone at Alloy gave McCafferty’s books to Viswanathan.” Again, we’ll never know because PATRICK DIDN’T ASK. Patrick praises KV for her candor, but it seemed clear to this listener that Viswanathan the lawyer definitely set some ground rules that the most important questions were the ones she wouldn’t answer.
Even worse for a respected critic and reviewer like Patrick? Her reluctance to call the large scale theft of another author’s work what it was--plagiarism. Not "alleged." Plagiarism. And contrary to the "bombshell" in the interview, Harvard's internal investigation was about Kaavya’s *academic* work while a student. It did not absolve her from the plagiarism in Opal Mehta because that was outside Harvard's purview. (Another investigation went into articles she wrote for a local newspaper, which also found no plagiarism.)
Viswanathan talks about “incentives” in publishing. The incentives here are clear. Patrick got a “scoop” and Viswanathan got to take the first step in her redemption tour—one that will culminate with the inevitable press cycle for the publication of her literary adult novel in progress.
I expected better from Patrick, a respected book critic and interviewer. I will not be listening to any future episodes.”Read full review »
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