http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/02/13/in-defense-of-plagiarism/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:38:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/02/13/in-defense-of-plagiarism/comment-page-1/#comment-100118 Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » Blog Archive » Were Wallace Stegner’s words borrowed or stolen? Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:00:25 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/02/13/in-defense-of-plagiarism/#comment-100118 [...] In the Los Angeles Times (”A classic, or a fraud?“), Philip L. Fradkin keeps alive the ghost of Wallace Stegner’s sins, reexamining the curious case of Angle of Repose. Fradkin borrows from–but doesn’t plagiarize–Jonathan Lethem. (Although he plagiarizes other writers. Read it, you’ll see what I mean. Lethem did it better.) Criticism of Stegner’s use of Foote’s material has circulated mainly among academics and some feminists and has gone largely unnoticed by the public, even though a magazine article in this newspaper drew attention to the issue five years ago. Whether Stegner was guilty of plagiarism and slander, as his harshest critics maintain, the complexity of the act has never been completely explored. [...]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/02/13/in-defense-of-plagiarism/comment-page-1/#comment-94873 Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » Blog Archive » Reference Books Are Full of Ideas Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:08:35 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/02/13/in-defense-of-plagiarism/#comment-94873 [...] As Google Book Search identifies more and more alleged plagiarists, the whole discussion of plagiarism is likely to become even more nuanced than it did in 2007. Or, once the number of accused authors grows large enough, accusations may elicit nothing more than yawns. [...]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/02/13/in-defense-of-plagiarism/comment-page-1/#comment-32412 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Do we love him now? Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:46:12 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/02/13/in-defense-of-plagiarism/#comment-32412 [...] After careful consideration of copyright issues, Jonathan Lethem puts his money — er, make that “intellectual property” — where his mouth is. Says he: On May 15th I’ll give away a free option on the film rights to my novel You Don’t Love Me Yet to a selected filmmaker. [...]

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