http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/04/24/the-food-court-of-public-opinion/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:35:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/04/24/the-food-court-of-public-opinion/#comment-284782 Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » Blog Archive » Toby Young: Tripping over His Own Low Standards Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:19:04 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/04/24/the-food-court-of-public-opinion/#comment-284782 [...] British Young seemed quite content to hold a young American to a somewhat higher standard. Remember Kaavya Viswanathan? “The thing that amazes me about cases like hers is why the authors don’t bother to put [...] […] British Young seemed quite content to hold a young American to a somewhat higher standard. Remember Kaavya Viswanathan? “The thing that amazes me about cases like hers is why the authors don’t bother to put […]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/04/24/the-food-court-of-public-opinion/#comment-27994 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » A Teaching Moment Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:48:48 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/04/24/the-food-court-of-public-opinion/#comment-27994 [...] Well, Kaavya Viswanathan confessed. Sort of. She did copy language from Megan McCafferty, she said, but the borrowing was “unintentional and unconscious.” Her agent backed her up, saying, “Teenagers tend to adopt each other’s language.” (These quotes are cribbed from the New York Times article; there’s a free article at the Harvard Crimson.) Yesterday I asked, “isn’t teenage life an endless cycle of innovation and emulation, anyway?” [...] […] Well, Kaavya Viswanathan confessed. Sort of. She did copy language from Megan McCafferty, she said, but the borrowing was “unintentional and unconscious.” Her agent backed her up, saying, “Teenagers tend to adopt each other’s language.” (These quotes are cribbed from the New York Times article; there’s a free article at the Harvard Crimson.) Yesterday I asked, “isn’t teenage life an endless cycle of innovation and emulation, anyway?” […]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/04/24/the-food-court-of-public-opinion/#comment-1202 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Publisher Won’t Do If I Did It Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:19:41 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/04/24/the-food-court-of-public-opinion/#comment-1202 [...] Poor Kaavya. Her own ill-considered project has now linked her via Google (753 hits and growing) to someone whose crimes were against more than the English language. [...] […] Poor Kaavya. Her own ill-considered project has now linked her via Google (753 hits and growing) to someone whose crimes were against more than the English language. […]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/04/24/the-food-court-of-public-opinion/#comment-216 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » A Teaching Moment Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:37:45 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/04/24/the-food-court-of-public-opinion/#comment-216 [...] « The Food Court of Public Opinion The New Supergroups » [...] […] « The Food Court of Public Opinion The New Supergroups » […]

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