Can’t stop watching the Kaavya Viswanathan mess. Chip Scanlan’s column on Poynter uses it in a discussion of what to teach students about plagiarism. (Although he says he’s “not interested in piling on”, he does.)
I’ve got another book packaging idea for “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life.” Grind it into pulp, dump it in the trash and tell its young author to do it over. This time in her own words.
I still kinda wish I’d bought a copy of the book earlier. The description reminds me of people I went to high school with.