It started with a late-night e-mail from a friend and fellow journalist: “Have you seen this?” I clicked on the link and got an article on what has become the latest scandal to send the New York publishing world into paroxysms: novelist Kaavya Viswanathan’s admitted theft of language and passages from another young-adult writer, Megan Read More
It started with a late-night e-mail from a friend and fellow journalist: “Have you seen this?” I clicked on the link and got an article on what has become the latest scandal to send the New York publishing world into paroxysms: novelist Kaavya Viswanathan’s admitted theft of language and passages from another young-adult writer, Megan Read More
Harvard is the most nastily competitive hive of pre-/post-/intrapubescent energy to be found anywhere this side of Pluto. Take it from me, bub. The kids who end up at Harvard have tunnel vision about success. They have been selected to possibly enter the American power structure, but as each of them walks through the door Read More
