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Jamaica Kincaid, Writer, Takes Kaavya Viswanathan, Plagiarist, Under Wing
Award-winning novelist and memoirist Jamaica Kincaid, who couldn't countenance working for a New Yorker that had anything to do with Roseanne Barr, is now in a better place: visiting professor at Harvard. But what sort of undergrad does she hang with? According to our English Department sources up in Cambridge (don't laugh), Kincaid, author of Lucy and A Small Place, has agreed to spend the next academic year advising the senior thesis of Kaavya Viswanathan, non-author of How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life. For the benefit of whatever Harvard disciplinary committee overlooks creative-writing theses, let's get the obvious festivities started: More »
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By jliuComment by valley415: Harvard should have kicked kaavya OUT. She's a freaking liar and plagiarist. How does that Akash kid get kicked out of YALE... more » | Other threads
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Gawker's Personalities of the Year
As 2006 huffs toward its inexorable end, we decided to take a moment to recognize those personalities that made our job that much more tolerable this year. These are the people who gave us endless fodder for our douchebag mill, who were attracted to the spotlight like moths to a flame, whose stated disdain for our coverage of them was contradicted by their almost pathetic attempts to court it. The adage that there's no such thing as bad publicity has never felt more apt.
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Remainders: Fake News Day?
- A side-by-side comparison of the plagiaristic transgressions of Ian McEwan and Kaavya Viswanathan. [ReadySteadyGo] More »
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IvyWise founder Katherine Cohen Still Credible. Not!
Who cares about anything besides real estate, IVF, and getting into prestigious exclusive colleges? Not New York, clearly. This week's inferiority-complex inducer is an article about the insane impossibility of getting into college, wherein crazily overqualified applicants are evaluated, then dismissed ("a red flag is the Ping Pong club" "it still puts him in the right range for a minority, socioeconomically disadvantaged student") by an expert: "Katherine Cohen, CEO and founder of IvyWise, a school-admissions consulting company." More »
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By Emily GouldComment by GaryGnu: TedSez, Next you are going to tell me that Tinsley Mortimer didn't get into Columbia on her own merits. I hear her... more » | Other threads
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Kaavya Viswanathan Continues To Rehabilitate Image
For the two of you who still care what America's favoriteYA authorcopykitten has been up to lately, this video finds her on the Dark Continent. Watch for the scenic shots of wildlife, the glamor shot of a windswept Kaavya listening to her ipod and looking bored in a Jeep, and the money shot of the text that asks if we're "tired of seeing the same images again and again." More »
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By Emily GouldComment by Sirius: http://classic.85broads.com/kenya/index.php?page=team Oh, gosh, aren't they just so precious? No, wait, I typed that wrong. I meant pretentious. more » | Other threads
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Down By the Banks of the River Charles: Lovers, Fuggers, Thieves, Plagiarists
At left, a cartoon published on October 12 by Newday's Walt Handelsman; at right, a cartoon published in the Harvard Crimson by Kathleen E. Breeden on October 25. As the Crimson reports, there's a "noticeable similarity" between the two. "Further review of other cartoons drawn by Breeden has yielded three other examples of similarities among her work and editorial cartoons featured on Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index, a Web site that lists and organizes editorial cartoons from around the world." This incident follows the suspension of a column by the Crimson'sVictoria B. Ilyinsky after Ilyinsky was found to have ripped off material from Slate. There's an easy Kaavya Viswanathan joke here, but at least Kaavya plagiarized from an actual book; stealing stuff from the Internet seems so much more lazy. What are the odds that both these girls' claimed to "build large suspension bridges in my yard" in their admission essays? More »
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Fake Writer's Real Writing Shows Plagiarism Not Necessarily a Bad Idea
The kids at IvyGate take a break from their non-stop Aleksey D. Vayner coverage to note the return to print of ur-Vayner Kaavya Viswanathan. Kaavya's got a profile of 85 Broads founder Janet Hanson in a magazine put out by Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business. The piece is pretty flat, but, as the Gaters note, there is a particular poignance to the passage below: More »
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By abalk2Comment by TakeBackWhatYouSaidAboutThor: heh. Maybe she'll "internalize" those words too. more » | Other threads
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Kaavya Viswanathan Quarantined From Underclassmen
As summer turns to fall and annoying children are removed from the streets and properly corralled into their educational stables, we turn our thoughts to those storied Ivy institutions where said beastchildren will inevitably enroll. So, Harvard — 'sup with junior Kaavya Viswanathan? After her overhyped debut, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life was revealed to contain quite a few instances of shameless plagiarism, she left campus and spent her summer interning for 85 Broads, an organization that sent her to Africa where no one knew of her shame. But now it's back to school for Kaavya — how's life back on campus? Is she keeping busy? From Harvard Magazine: More » -
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Remainders: Can You Really Trust Jennifer Aniston's Publicist?
• Jennifer Aniston's publicist denies Us Weekly's report that Aniston and Vince Vaughn are engaged, but he's made a lot of false denials before. Wait, does this suggest that publicists are merely paid liars? No. Can't be. [Us Weekly] More »
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By JessicaComment by sarahblooms: I love this: OAN - What about AOL? Why not buy them?JK - "It's a little bit out of my price... more » | Other threads
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Amazon.com Reviewer Seems Kind Of Familiar
Remember 85 Broads, the bunch of do-gooder MBA chicks for whom Kaavya Viswanathan is traveling to Africa? Well, they've got a couple of books out, and in the Amazon reviews for More Than 85 Broads, we came across the following: More »
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By abalk2Comment by toocheapfortherapy: "Made me believe in myself and my ability to achieve any goal." Well if "any goal" is defined as either... more » | Other threads
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Kaavya Viswanathan Hears The Drums Echoing Tonight
85 Broads, a "global community" of chicks with MBAs and those who dream of so being, included the following information in its recent monthly newsletter (or, as they have it, "Broadcast"): More » -
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Remainders: Gannon-Guckert Flits Into Town
• Everyone's favorite gay escort-cum-White House reporter Jeff Gannon/James Guckert will be speaking this Thursday at the 3 West Club for the Log Cabin Republicans' monthly meeting. Hopefully, it'll be just like a Learning Annex session: how to transform your internet hobby into a viable prostitution endeavor. [Productshop NYC] More » -
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Selling the Kaavya Viswanathan Story
Kaavya Viswanathan, the Harvard sophomore who was caught plagiarizing her highly-publicized, studio-optioned debut novel, has wisely disappeared into relative obscurity since her little kerfuffle. But just because she destroyed her "writing" career and can no longer make a dime on her name doesn't mean that someone can't make a profit off of the whole thing: More » -
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Remainders: Despite Waning Public Interest, Paris Hilton's Sandy Nipple Refuses to Be Ignored
• Just in time for the long weekend, it's a Paris Hilton nip slip. Personally, we find the footage of her writhing around in the sand, trying so hard to be sexy for her new video, to be far more comical than stupid ol' areola. [TMZ] More »
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By JessicaComment by RandomHookup: You didn't miss much ... seems we must be pretty hard up for nipplage these days. more » | Other threads
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Vintage Viswanathan on 'Breakfast With the Arts'
A&E got nostalgic this weekend, rerunning the episode of Breakfast With the Arts from the halcyon days when Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan was not yet known as an uber-plagiarizer. The episode was done in two parts, the first featuring Kaavya reading from Opal Mehta (taped pre-scandal, of course) and then giving an interview; the second, an update on the story with the Observer's Sheelah Kolhatkar. More »
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By JessicaComment by SecureLocation: All that cutting and pasting can tucker a gal out. more » | Other threads
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fake writer day
Kaavya Meets Her Match, Promptly Gets Served
The Morning News has finally picked a winner in their Sloppy Seconds With Opal Mehta contest. Inspired by the multi-sourced plagiasm of Kaavya Viswanathan, TMN put it to readers to create an "original" piece plagiarized from no less than 5 works. The winner is Virginian Bonnie Furlong, who plagiarized a whopping 79 different passages for her story — and, in turn, served Kaavya her weak ass on a plate. More »
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By JessicaComment by Arch Noble: That'll wipe that self-satisfied smirk off her face. more » | Other threads
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Kaavya Viswanathan Tries to Party
A reader reports that plagiarizing Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan is making an attempt to return to normal student life: More » -
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Media Bubble: 'Times' Has Good Circ News; 'News' Loses More Than 'Post'
• In latest stats, newspaper circ is — of course — down. One exception: The mighty NYT. Yay. Elsewhere in town, the Post-News gap narrows, as Rupe's tab loses fewer readers than Mort's. [E&P] More » -
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Remainders: Please Don't 'Harrass' Scarlett Johansson
• NB to Scarlett Johansson: You're ours, bitch. You're just pretty property of the paparazzi. If you continue to fight it, you'll only continue to embarrass yourself. [Gilded Moose] More »
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By JessicaComment by amillionpieces: I'm sure I could get used to being harassed by photographers for the money she gets for movies. Harass... more » | Other threads
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Remainders: All Cruise, All the Time
• OH MY GOD IT'S SO FUCKING AMAZING OH YEAH TOM CRUISE! You, too, can experience the joy of Tom, by watching the live webcast of him walking into the movie theater at 7pm. [Yahoo] More »
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By JessicaComment by SecureLocation: Why is Bonnie Fuller wearing one of those $17.99 house dresses they sell in the back of Parade magazine? more » | Other threads
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Alloy's House of Book Packaging Illusions
In today's Observer, Sheelah Kolhatkar goes spelunking about Alloy, the book packaging company responsible for Kaavya Viswanathan's impressively plagiarized debut novel. Aside from developing ideas in-house and then not allowing their originators to write the resulting books, Alloy books are often written by multiple ghostwriters. In the case of Opal Mehta, a multi-author approach would explain why the thing seems to be cribbed from some 32 different sources. More »
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By JessicaComment by harrietthespy: Sorry but I have to know. Is Ann M Martin a lesbian? Today I bought Super Special Number One -... more » | Other threads
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Gawker Stalker: Kaavya Back in Cambridge
We've got our first report of plagiarizing wunderkind Kaavya Viswanathan's return to Harvard: More » -
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How Kaavya Viswanathan Lost Her Book Deal
After ordering that bookstores pull plagiarizing Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan's book from the shelves, publisher Little, Brown has decided to permanently withdraw the title, meaning that no more copies will be printed and we'll all be spared a pithy author's note in the second edition. If you've not yet scored your own copy of How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, you can do so on eBay for about 40 bucks. More » -
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Remainders: The Generosity of Nicole Richie
• How can you not love Nicole Richie? The saintly thing can't help but share every last sprinkle of blow she's got. [Defamer] More »
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By JessicaComment by Ben Popken: Isn't this picture a subliminal advertisment for Thrillist? more » | Other threads
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Gawker Explainer: Special Fake-Writer Edition
Because several of you have asked, we checked in with Gawker's Cambridge correspondent for a definitive answer: More »
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By JesseComment by Valerie Flame: I love how on air the radio news reader (1010 wins? 880? don't remember) struggled to pronounce it. Like she... more » | Other threads
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Kaavya Admits: She's 'Terrified About the Writing Process'
On Sunday, April 23, The Harvard Crimson was breaking news that Kaavya Viswanathan was a plagiarist. Halfway around the world, meantime, The Hindu, which calls itself "India's National Newspaper," was that same day publishing a fairly fawning Q&A with the little Indian-American girl made good. (Made better?) A Gawker reader stumbled across that Hindu interview this morning, and we must stop now to save its final bit: More »
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By JesseComment by the cornballer: my harvard-type boss says she's offended by that comment. more » | Other threads
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Laurel Touby Takes on Kaavya Viswanathan
Because we are all victim to the whims of our masters, Mediabistro's bookish blog Galleycat has given publisher Laurel Touby access to their Movable Type. At first, it seems that she's writing an honest defense of Kaavya Viswanathan: "I, too, suffer from a form of selective memory." Right — she runs a networking company, but never remembers people's names. But then we continued reading and realized that we were actually dealing with Laurel's special brand of humor: More » -
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Kaavya Viswanathan Can't Stop the Plagiarizing
The Times reports today that Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan seems to have plagiarized from a third work, Sophie Kinsella's Can You Keep a Secret? Last week, Viswanathan confessed to "unintentionally" plagiarizing the work of Megan McCafferty, whose words appear in Viswanathan's How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life in more than 40 separate passages. Publisher Little, Brown has since ordered stores to pull Viswanathan's book from the shelves. More » -
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You Know You're a Better Cheat Than Kaavya
Last week brought us a confession from sneaky Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan, who claimed that she was "influenced" by the works of Megan McCafferty, subconsciously transcribing word-for-word passages from those novels into the text of her own. Please — if you're going to cheat, at least be fucking good at it. More »
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Gawker's Week in Review: Fake Writers Will Never Learn
• Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan gets spanked for plagiarizing her debut novel. Little, Brown enters shame spiral for having given an underage hack a two book, $500K deal — they cope by pulling her bestseller from the shelves. More » -
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Publisher Recalls Kaavya Viswanathan's Book
The game is over for Kaavya Viswanathan: Publisher Little, Brown has decided to pull the Harvard sophomore's novel from bookstore shelves after she admitted to all but plagiarizing the work of Megan McCafferty. The announcement came late last night, just one day after the publisher originally said they would not recall copies — but they probably saw how pissed Katie Couric was and had a change of heart. More »
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By JessicaComment by Rob Sterling: Crap. I had a whole idea to pose as a teenaged Desi wunderkind chick from Jersey and submit a... more » | Other threads
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Remainders: Pellicano Finally Threatens a New York Journo
• Vanity Fair contributing editor John Connolly has been informed by the U.S. Attorney's office that Anthony Pellicano has "threatened his safety." Connolly has written several pieces on the wiretap case, including the latest in the June issue, and just signed a book deal on the subject. Nikki Finke counts this as the third journo Pellicano has threatened, and the first NYC-based of the bunch. Congrats, Connolly. [Deadline Hollywood] More »
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By JessicaComment by Bubba Barney: Supposedly it's legit. Virgin Radio UK was even having its listeners help the guy. more » | Other threads
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Couric Grills Viswanathan, World Cringes
For once, we actually missed a moment of the Today show yesterday, specifically the moment in which Katie Couric grilled Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan about the numerous passages in her book that seem to be plagiarized from the novels of Megan McCafferty. Couric busted out her angry-mom tone, asking Viswanathan how her parents must feel and criticizing her for thinking an apology might make this go away. Towards the end of the bitch-slappery, Couric mentioned Viswanathan's leave from Harvard and possible expulsion then asked, "Why did you want to come to the Today show?" "To tell the truth," responded Viswanathan. Couric's perky rage was visible. More »
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By JessicaComment by Marvelous Marv: Show her a lying shitbag plagiarist fake writer and Katie-the-Chipmunk will put her on the air and help her sell... more » | Other threads
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Remainders: Who Couldn't Use a Packager?
• Teen lit packaging expert Lizzie "Old Hag" Skurnick talks about the realities of 17th Street's "packaging" of Kaavya Viswanathan's first novel: Packagers are writers and editors who get the job done quickly for larger publishing houses, and make a lot of money doing so. If that meant pulling out some stock passages for Viswanathan to get her manuscript in on time, that would explain the suspected plagiarism. Related: Why aren't we in the packaging business? [Harvard Independent] More » -
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Indians on Indians: Tackling Kaavya Viswanathan
We've all spent a fair deal of time analyzing, pondering, lamenting and/or scoffing at the situation of Kaavya Viswanathan, the Harvard sophomore who, after receiving $500K for a two-book deal, has been accused of plagiarizing passages in her debut novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life. But someday, the current controversy will be a thing of the past, and what then of young Kaavya? There is, of course, a very young woman at the center of all this. More » -
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Kaavya Viswanathan Got Wild, Got a Life
No wonder 19-year-old Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan had to plagiarize her novel — it's because she's sooo hungover: More » -
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Your Obscenely Overpaid, Plagiarizing Young Author Update
Though Kaavya Viswanathan has confessed to being subconsciously "influenced" by the work of Megan McCafferty to the point of reproducing passages from McCafferty's books for her own bestselling debut How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, there's still literary chatter to suggest there's more to the story than just that. In particular, a former TA of Viswanathan writes, "Kaavya was my student last spring (in a section where I was a TA). I was surprised to learn she had written a book, as her writing was awful- I had given her low grades on her papers." More » -
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How Kaavya Viswanathan Got a Spanking
Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan has admitted to "accidentally" borrowing material for her first novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, after the Crimson identified more than a few passages in Opal that mirrored Megan McCafferty's work in Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings. In a statement issued by her publisher Little, Brown, Viswanathan admitted that she had read Megan McCafferty's books in high school and acknowledged the similarities: More »
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By JessicaComment by Arch Noble: So she was "unconscious". (glug glug) "I plan to revise my novel for future printings to eliminate any inappropriate similarities." Revision?... more » | Other threads
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Harvard's Viswanathan Celebrates Fake Writer Day
What happens when you sign a high school kid to a $500K two-book deal? We wouldn't know, being reasonably untalented since elementary school. But ask the sad folks at Little, Brown — they signed Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan to that exact deal, and her debut, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, seems to feature plagiarized content. Currently at #32 on the New York Times bestseller list and optioned by Dreamworks, Opal Mehta contains "strikingly similar" (and, at one point, word-for-word) text to Megan McCafferty's 2001 novel Sloppy Firsts and her 2003 follow-up Second Helpings. McCafferty's people at Random House are taking the allegations "very seriously," but when contacted by the Harvard Crimson, Viswanathan said that she had "no idea what you are talking about." More »
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By JessicaComment by Arch Noble: Busted. I was hoping for a public cat fight over these allegations. But the only thing Megan McCafferty came up... more » | Other threads
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