Westcoastmedia

NYC/International advertising/media guy and his family move west in search of...everything. Periodic rants about life, work, and the dog.

Sunday, April 30, 2006

The other kind of fiction

Anyone else feel a kind of schadenfreude at the unmaking of a literary ingenue?

This chick at Harvard whose first novel, which was apparently really written by a literary packaging agency, contained nearly 30 separate passages which were either complete duplications or closely stolen approximation of the exact text of an earlier novel.

Seriously, there ought to be a shelf at Borders for 'stolen fiction'.